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Discussion on: S3 vs HDFS

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luminousmen

Not really - you can use whatever platform you want with s3. I think HDFS nowadays is used internally by those cloud providers or on-prem solutions.

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Wu Tao

Sure, but if you run large dataset computation on top of aws s3 without deploying on ec2, it will probably cost a big I/O bandwidth payroll.