@steemmillionaire
I know the post is 2 years old. Maybe you could still help me out.
I just set up the VM also using an 8 vCPU with 7.2 GB memory. Hourly rate seems not to have changed since then.

• I could install BOINC
• I could link it to my BAM! -> it shows up as a host
• I could assign a project, in my case I went for Primegrid
• The client does not seem to start (CPU is idle

boinccmd --get_simple_gui_info
gives out the following:
https://pastebin.com/SmkVDZC6

Could you or someone else help me out here please?