That's cool. You can be as local or not as fits your preference. 
My point is that "logical machine" need not necessarily be 1:1 with "physical machine". Our goal is to make that distinction as fungible as the user wants (including not at all) 

 cool i guess. But local means on my machine. cloud is someone elses. just not a fit for this use case imho but hey itll be a popular transitional til abused by whoever sits at data choke point. til then. let le bon temps roule as the cajun say 

 To be clear, personally I would only use cloud services for encrypted-at-rest redundancy. In case my local machine explodes I could restore.