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Re:Amazon EC2 with Hadoop is 4 times more expensive than run... by senthilnayagam on Friday November 23, 2012 @10:19AM (#4822446)
Are you implying Amazon web services is a high margin business? That would be good for Amazon stocks

I agree virtualised server performance is lower than equivalent hardware, but order of 4 magnitude seems very high and improbable.

Assuming you don't use S3 locally, I don't see EMC mentioned anywhere in your local cluster, we should remove that in comparison

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Re:Amazon EC2 with Hadoop is 4 times more expensive than run... by phaefele on Friday November 23, 2012 @11:39AM (#4822747)
Some of the difference comes about due to the number of cores in the machines we purchased - they are 16 core machines (each E5-2650 has 8 cores.)

In terms of storage, we are utilizing HDFS with commodity 3TB drives, thus no specialized storage from EMC (or the like.)

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Re:Amazon EC2 with Hadoop is 4 times more expensive than run... by ankushb on Friday November 23, 2012 @10:48AM (#4822545)
This is high margin business, look Amazon P/E ;-)
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