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December 8, 2006
EC2, Licensing, and Competitive Advantage
I have been working with Amazon Web Services (and EC2) a lot lately, and have made some observations that really fly in the face of conventional wisdom.
I work in ETL, which means I need to get a hold of big iron to crunch on big data. Machines are expensive, licenses are expensive, storage and networks are cheap. This is very different from Amazon's compute farm approach, which changes the economics of the game, especially with respect to software licensing ...
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Posted by Morgan Goeller at December 8, 2006 12:30 PM
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EC2 is indeed changing the economics of ETL!
I've been running ETL with Kettle on EC2 too for a while : http://www.ibridge.be/?p=23
I wrote some scripts that automate the setup of clustered-enabled transformations so that you can run said transformation on a variable number of nodes. This stuff is in Beta at the moment, contact me if you want to play along.
All the best,
Matt
Posted by: Matt Casters at December 11, 2006 1:45 PM
