| Thanks for the response - there are some fair points here. As other commenters pointed out, the fact that you charge by minute not hour does in fact make a big difference in price, particularly for those of us that need to run intensive but sporadic/short tasks. A few question about your points that I am trying to find in documentation right now but perhaps you can save me the trouble if you happen to see this first: > Domino makes it really easy to start and manage multiple runs in parallel (think a modern, easy-to-use cluster). If you're doing all this directly with AWS, you're quickly running into pain points managing all your instances and images. How so? Does Domino allow you spin up more cores at will from R? That would be awesome. > - Domino lets you deploy your analyses as self-service web UI tools, or deploy them to API endpoints. Doing this on your own would involve building an entire web stack around your analysis. This is awesome and definitely useful if you are doing work for clients and do not want to be bothered with spending too much time building production grade stuff. In some sense is this like yhathq.com? (I understand you guys do more than they do in the sense you provide all these other features). |