The biggest difference between cloud and local machines is perhaps data management. Doing small-scale computation is not too different because they are all just Linux servers...
Here're several ways to preserve data after the work is done, listing from fast&expensive to slow&cheap:
Just stop the EC2 instance. Will pay for the EBS volume. $0.10 / GB-month by default.
Save EBS volumes into EBS Snapshots. Storage cost is 50% of the first option ($0.05 / GB-month).
Move data to S3 and pull them back later. Bandwidth is 100~200 MB/s by default. cost is 23% of the first option ($0.023 / GB-month).
Cheaper versions of S3 like or S3-IA ($0.0125 / GB-month) and glacier ($0.004 / GB-month)
JiaweiZhuang
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6 years ago
The biggest difference between cloud and local machines is perhaps data management. Doing small-scale computation is not too different because they are all just Linux servers...
Here're several ways to preserve data after the work is done, listing from fast&expensive to slow&cheap:
The latest pricing can be found at:
Will need to go through them one-by-one. S3 tutorials can use other Earth science data on AWS to show additional benefits of the cloud.