I put this in the private forum. It belongs here too. This article discusses controlling a gaming rig in the cloud (although you might want to spin up your rig in North Virginia or 'Frisco instead of Singapore ).
http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-...ce-on-ec2.html
A casual gamer could run MMOs on some of the best gaming hardware in the world, kept up-to-date by Amazon, for about $4 each 6 hour gaming session...
...(although to be fair: by streaming a remote machine, it may only be good for a 6 hour crafting session :P ).