For me, it came down to the cc2.8xlarge vs the hi1.4xlarge. In the end I went with the hi1.4xlarge.
On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Amit Mor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, I am curious to hear the recommendations people have here for > running HBase on EC2 instances. I failed to find an instance that has a > good ratio/balance between CPU, # of disks and jvm acceptable heap Memory > to be used with (almost random) read intensive cluster. The major > bottleneck I found was the disk read latency that could even reach srvtm of > a second ... Combined with everything else ;-) > > Thanks, > Amit
