Actually running and scaling a hdfs cluster is no easy task and quite expensive than cloud based object storage options. Just list a few: namenode HA, unbalan

Actually running and scaling a hdfs cluster is no easy task and quite expensive than cloud based object storage options. Just list a few: namenode HA, unbalanced r/w (a lot of old data but less used, wasting cpus for just making the machines up), cross dc replication. You may be able to get some of them from cloudera, but would that be cheap?