The differences can be many. To name a few, a cloud-based staking vault environment is much more stable and shielded from power outages, network outages, performance issues, and security threats (think phishing, hacking, etc.).
Also, you can access your cloud-based staking vault environment from anywhere using your mobile device.
From a price comparison perspective, the prices of a staking vault on the Divi Desktop or mobile app are higher for Divi amounts over 200,000.
The average price for building your own cloud-based environment is around $23 USD and there isn’t a limit to the amount of Divi you can stake in your vault.
$23 USD
The monthly average cost of running your own cold staking vault environment in the cloud is $23 USD. This price will vary a little depending on what region you place your computers (called instances in AWS) in.
The other variable cost will be how often you have your cloud-based wallet instance running. Normally, this instance is off (i.e. shutdown) and doesn’t incur AWS costs. You’ll only need to have the wallet instance running when you want to add or remove Divi from your staking vault or send Divi to someone.