Thanks Thomas. I was looking for a small beginning. Glad to know that micro-instances would work. The pricing seems generous on internal network pipe.
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Thomas Jungblut < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > > what are you trying to do on the cloud? Just for testing? Or do you want to > run a larger computing application? > I have recently bought a bit of cloud (100h with 16 large instances for > $0,38 in Dublin). It was quite expensive = 608USD. > Gladly, when running Hama there are regularly no other costs involved like > external IO requests. > > However, for just testing of a small scale application like SSSP with 1mio > vertices, 8 micro instaces were enough. But they are for free, you have to > do some reconfiguration on Hadoop - heap sizes are too large in default > configuration. > > Hope it helps you a bit. > Thomas > > 2012/1/31 Suraj Menon <[email protected]> > > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to move out of my 2 VM setup to a bigger Hama cluster. I am > > planning to use the Amazon EC2 service. I am trying to get an estimate of > > the cost involved in doing so. From their pricing model, I believe I > should > > be covered for the first year or am I?. How much does it cost you > typically > > for a month? > > > > Thanks, > > Suraj > > > > > > -- > Thomas Jungblut > Berlin <[email protected]> >
