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		fifilura on May 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Data Science at the Command Line, 2nd Edition (202... What immediately makes it worth it is when the cloud provider you are (supposedly) already invested in provides the CPU cluster without extra set up cost. Examples Google BigQuery, AWS Athena or AWS serverless EMR. These cloud providers always have a bunch of CPUs idle, so they even provide the CPU cost for free, it is just the loading of data that costs.

datadrivenangel on May 6, 2024 [–]

I love BigQuery, but they do charge you for CPU slots/processing. It's a great deal to not have to manage all that stuff though.

fifilura on May 6, 2024 | [–]

Oh, that's new then? Or maybe it was a part of the monthly bill I never saw.

AWS (still) costs per data loaded though.

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