Thank you :) I also found this cost calculator for EC2 http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html <http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html>
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > With no information whatsoever about size of the data, I would guess a cost > of about $4000 / node with annual hosting and power requirements about > $2000/year. > > This is probably no more accurate than one order of magnitude. It has a > decent chance of being on the close order of magnitude. In particular, you > might want > a lot of memory. It is unlikely you want a lot of disks. > > You can do the math yourself on the EC2 costs. > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Weishung Chung <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I am trying to estimate the cost of hosting own HBase cluster vs using >> EC2. >> Could anyone give me some guidance? >> Cluster size ~ 6 to 8 nodes >> Usage ~ at least 12 hours/day with lot of read/write operations. (I know I >> need to have more concrete usage number here) >> >> Thank you so much :) >> > >
