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jbarham on July 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: New High I/O EC2 Instance Type - hi1.4xlarge - 2 T...

FWIW it costs $27,156 a year on-demand or $12,720 as a reserved heavy utilization instance.

For heavy analytics workloads I'd bet that Google BigQuery (https://developers.google.com/bigquery/) would be cheaper and faster and more reliable.

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