[mej10]

> and a DC1.8XL costs $4800/hour to "compute" the data.

Is this a typo? A single DC1.8XL is $4.80/hour. 8, like the article, would be $38.40/hour.

[mooman219]

As stated, on demand pricing was used. Both products have special pricing at higher usages and flat-pricing tiers. It would start to get compilicated to compare them at that point.

Numbers on https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/ used.

dc1.8xlarge - $4.800 per Hour

[zerocrates]

> $4.800 per Hour

That's four point eight dollars, not four thousand eight hundred.

[mooman219]

Fixed! Used to seeing 4.800 being 4800 apologies!

[zerocrates]

I figured. It's easy to forget that there's really no international/intercultural agreement on number punctuation, particularly combined with a service that wants to price down to tenths of cents.

[mej10]

I don't understand how you calculated how much it costs to compute on the Redshift cluster. $1100 would be ~28 hours of the 8-node cluster.