Amazon EC2 will charge you by hours, so I think it will fit for your requirement.
Jeff Zhang On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Palikala, Rajendra (CCL) < rpalik...@carnival.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am planning to develop some proto-types on Hadoop for ETL to a > datwarehouse. But I don't have enough nodes (hardware/computers) to test the > performance of Hadoop. I want to give a demo on performance. I heard of > Amazon Web Services that they provide some services like this. But I am not > sure. Any one from the community knows any companies where they provide > these hardware on a monthly rent basis. Please advise. > > Thks, > Rajendra