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by gigatexal 2288 days ago
might be cheaper to spin up virtual workstations on AWS and use the data there
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julienchastang 2287 days ago
Exactly. Move your computation to the data instead of the other way around. At that point, there are many ways to keep costs down such as using spot instances and tearing down VMs when your analysis is over.
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gigatexal 2287 days ago
And you get to rent the latest hardware than use likely old machines ... I mean you use the existing machines as dumb terminals but still
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