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> I have Windows only software that can take two weeks to complete a dataset

What kind of sadistic monster wrote this?

Bet you $5 it's an R script.

R isn't Windows-only.

Some modules are windows only, I've seen many R pipelines that can only run on windows. Azure has capitalized on this.

Where advice would you offer to someone with long-running R-Scripts? Spark?

Spark and EMR spot instances for sure.