"Is Amazon overpriced" Well, yeah. If you use it as just commodity servers. At Radius, we migrated our index build process over to using Elastic Map Reduce on

"Is Amazon overpriced" Well, yeah. If you use it as just commodity servers. At Radius, we migrated our index build process over to using Elastic Map Reduce on spot-priced servers and it's been a huge cost savings. Long story short, move to Amazon if you want elasticity and can design around saving from their services. Otherwise, look elsewhere.