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Decentralized Virtual Machines are a decentralized network that has much of the functionality of AWS. Until recently, you could primarily use Aleph for data storage and file storage. When you deploy a service onto the network, you are putting your service into a decentralized context where no one person or entity can take it offline. The Aleph VMs currently work best (maybe exclusively) on up-to-date Linux distributions. The easiest way to run a Linux distribution if you're not actually on a Linux is with Vagrant.