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Have to say that this is pretty amazing. The price is so low that it's a no-brainer to just give it a try. For the same 2TB capability, a Vertica license would
by 23david 14y ago
Have to say that this is pretty amazing. The price is so low that it's a no-brainer to just give it a try. For the same 2TB capability, a Vertica license would run between $20-40K, with high annual subscription fees.
The bigger question for me is why Amazon has been able to figure out the technical details necessary to run this kind of service for this price. It's just ridiculous. Talk about taking the oxygen out of the market...
- aptwebapps 14y agoThat seems to be their general strategy. Matthew Yglesias has posted about it several times. Here's one such: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/10/26/amazon_profits_they_don_t_exist_but_the_company_keeps_on_keeping_on.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/10/26/amazon_profit...
- perlgeek 14y ago> The bigger question for me is why Amazon has been able to figure out the technical details necessary to run this kind of service for this price. I guess they grew the infrastructure for themselves, optimizing it bit by bit over the years. And then noticed that it could be sold too.
- justincormack 14y agoThey seem to have taken their own business requirements for amazon.com and reimplemented them on commodity hardware.
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- jbellis 14y ago"Amazon Redshift includes technology components licensed from ParAccel." http://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-services-announces-amazon-redshift-174300203.html http://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-services-announces-amaz...