This is an interesting counter to ChromeOS/Chromebooks. Basically Amazon has a 'what your are familiar with, except in the cloud' as opposed to 'this new thing but it's cloud based.' The demerits for both are that you lose the cloud and you're down, someone gains access and you are compromised. So many baked in assumptions in IT about how the local workstation is local.
I wonder what it does to business internet prices too.
Actually a killer combination is this (or a more-affordable VPS) _plus_ a Chromebook.
You can SSH into your Linux desktop to do programming and heavy computing, and use web apps.
If you need some GUI, you do a web app on your server and connect to it from the browser on your Chromebook. (Instead of a full-on remote desktop VNC.)
This is a really nice way to work. And your Chromebook is disposable/wipe-able. It's basically a terminal. Welcome to 1970, but with the web app twist.
And of course you can SSH/browse into that same server from whatever else, too. Like a tablet, a full laptop, or even a desktop.
I wonder what it does to business internet prices too.