I'd love to understand the shape of this data and some of the types of queries you're performing. It would be very helpful as we build our product here at motherduck.
I have no doubt that there are situations where the cloud will be faster, especially when provisioned for max usage [which many companies do not]. However, there are a lot of these situations even where the local machine can supplement the cloud resources [think re decisions a query planner can make].
Feel free to reach out at ryan at motherduck if you want to chat more.