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You know it pains me to see you ask for resources. Everyday at work, my team uses a couple r3.4x large and c4.8x large for trivial tasks. My team does not realize how valuable a resource they are accessing(and wasting) everyday. I wish I can donate those to you, but company policy forbids me to.

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Thanks for the thought!

I hope I didn't sound ungrateful... There are resources in the university but they come with overhead and not as much freedom as a VM on which you can do anything.

That said our cluster is about as big as two c4.8xlarge vms.

FWIW, you can have 2 cc2.8xlarge spot instances for about $0.50/hour. $12/day isn't nothing, but it's pretty affordable. Stick your data on an EBS instance attached to the spot so you keep your data if the spot instance gets nuked and you have a functioning cluster for around 13% of the on-demand price.

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