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Re:Amazon EC2 with Hadoop is 4 times more expensive than run... by phaefele on Friday November 23, 2012 @12:27PM (#4822936)
Yes - this is what we are doing. With this 4x cost differential however, we calculated that it takes only 6-8 months to have the hardware pay for itself, so if you plan to be in business in that time frame you are better of buying.

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