I trained a foundation model on a $2/hour cloud GPU and watched it on my laptop. No AWS required.
Or: how Tailscale + Lambda Labs + a tracking server on your laptop replaces hours of AWS infrastructure work and costs. I needed a GPU. Specifically, an NVIDIA A100 to scale a tabular foundation model from a 1% sample (a 60-minute MacBook MPS run) up to a 20% sample (a five-to-eight hour