[showerst]

For the curious, the (max) price of those instances is $6.82/hr, so 206 * 6.82 * (23/60) = $538.55 --If they did it with non-reserved instances in US East.

If they used reserved instances in USEast, it drops to $181.

Obviously there are lots of costs involved beside the final perfect run, but it's an interesting ballpark.

[gphil]

One of the big positives of Spark is that its architecture is amenable to having workers run on spot instances, which are even cheaper than reserved instances.

[sp332]

You have to put spaces around your * 's to keep HN from italicizing everything.

[showerst]

Oops, edited. Thanks!