bitcoin blockchain is kind of big... if I want to run a c-lightning node (https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning) then do I have to also have a full bitcoin node running on that machine too?

Was hoping to spin up a cloud instance with all the running, but would run me like ~$100 a month? Am I missing a good alternative, or is the only alternative to do it on my own hardware?

If I already have a bitcoin-node running somewhere else, can I have a local instance of bitcoin core mirror my existing one via rpc credentials? (in order to not re-download blocks locally)

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