Thanks for the link! My thesis was basically a data analysis project, improving on work my supervisor did prior to me starting my thesis. Figshare is good to keep in mind, but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d have had much use for it, as the whole point of my thesis was to get certain figures within a reasonable time.<p>I actually had quite a lot of fun figuring out how to get everything working in the cloud. Set up my home desktop as my personal computer &quot;cluster&quot; (i5 processor, so a cluster of 4 cores!), I find it hard to work in an environment that I tend to do other stuff besides work in. Derived a small representative dataset from the massive one I had to quickly iterate over my analysis scripts in Cloud9 (while having github take care of my revision history). Then ssh&#x27;ing into my desktop PC whenever I needed to run the scripts on the full data set.<p>I considered adding a section on open science and cloud-based software to my thesis, but in the end decided not to due to a lack of time. Open science is based on open source principles, where everything that can be shared should be shared. The Cloud VM angle is quite interesting in this sense, as being able to share the machines that software for a research project was ran on is often quite difficult (or nigh impossible), and a cloud-based VM seems to bridge this gap somewhat. In theory, anyone could log-in to the VM and play around in the workspace I set up for my thesis project, not that many would want to I suppose.