Running a single script in the cloud shouldn't be hard

I work on Dask (OSS Python library for parallel computing) and I see people misusing us to run single functions or scripts on cloud machines. I tell them "Dask seems like overkill here, maybe there's a simpler tool out there that's easier to use?"

After doing a bit of research, maybe there isn't? I'm surprised clouds haven't made a smoother UX around Lambda/EC2/Batch/ECS. Am I missing something?

I wrote a small blog post about this here: [https://medium.com/coiled-hq/easy-heavyweight-serverless-functions-1983288c9ebc](https://medium.com/coiled-hq/easy-heavyweight-serverless-functions-1983288c9ebc) . It (shamelessly) …

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