When I was testing EMR i had only spent around 17USD for testing and with a decent sized EMR cluster.
On 2016-03-11 12:31, José Luis Larroque wrote: > Hi Jonathan! > I was trying to know which of those options use a time ago. For now i'm using > Amazon EMR, because it's more easy, you have some stuff configurated already. > > But, a few benefits could be that, with EC2, you can use the Free tier, and > save some money while you are testing your stuff. And probably should be more > cheaper the use of EC2 against EMR, but i'm not 100% sure of this. > > Bye! > Jose > > 2016-03-07 6:17 GMT-03:00 Jonathan Aquilina <jaquil...@eagleeyet.net>: > >> Good Morning, >> >> Just some food for thought as of late im noticing people using EC2 to setup >> ones own Hadoop cluster. What is the advantage of using ec2 over amazon's >> EMR hadoop cluster? >> >> Regard, >> >> Jonathan