Introduction I didn't start out with the idea of analyzing different cloud services, but then that's what happens when tinkering becomes interesting. Since its release in 1997, I've been a fan of the movie Contact . It was my first introduction to SETI and radio telescopes. Around the same time, computing started to become a thing. When I heard about distributed.net and the SETI@Home project, I immediately latched on....because I'm a nerd. Initially, SETI@Home was released as a stand-alone client. More recently, it was rebuilt as a project under the BOINC program at the University of California Berkeley. As part of this program, you can donate CPU cycles to any number of (non-cryptocurrency) projects. The Clean Energy Project, The SkyNet, and Einstein@Home are all other projects available the BOINC program. To participate, the BOINC client is installed on the target system and registered. Based on the user's preferences, data blocks one or more o...