same! how do you deal with cloudtop latency though? sometimes my neovim is very slow and laggy because of the remote connection / network file system
Spin up one in the US central region instead of an instance near your satellite office. The bottleneck is usually not your shell connection to the instance but the connections from the instance to all the infrastructure that's mainly based in the US.
I use a workstation specifically to improve latency. Needed to get approval at some point to get a refresh though.
Ever tried SSH'ing via "Mosh"? https://mosh.org
I have a (Google-issued) desktop in the same city I live in, so the latency is not so bad.
Cloudtop to run builds, g4 commands, etc., and srcfs / srcfsn to actually write code. (caveat: I have never used neovim, so I don't know if that is different).