cloud based home lab solution?

It seems like AWS and Azure keep enticing me with free credits and trails. Has anyone cracked the code on migrating a home lab to the cloud? I've only dealt with cloud providers at a pre-established enterprise level, or a lab environment that was more play/test than anything else.

I'm talking some fairly critical systems such as homeseer and blue iris, that should act as if they are local resources. Then a ton of lab VMs

This is coming as I'm thinking about upgrading current hardware.. but the cost

Spin up a VPN and basically do a site-to-site VPN.

Along the same lines as Eulogy. You should stand up what you want in the cloud and have a site to site VPN reaching back to your home. You will obviously need a firewall or an RRAS server to be the VPN endpoint at your home.

ok, cool. Thanks guys. I'll look into re-purposing my current build to be the endpoint. Could just go with a pfsense, which could replace my current router and do VPN

Yeah. Or OpenVPN, or any of the free VPN solutions really. I work for a cloud provider, so I have some stuff in the cloud, but I still have a lot at my house, too. I want my movies/TV/Music on my local storage which is ~50TB in my rack. I already had my ESX lab here as well, so it still is running to maintain the VPN, might as well use it for other stuff too