Thanks. I acknowledged that SAS offers cloud computing products in the body of my question. Suggesting "SAS on demand" does not answer it and raises concerns about whether or not my question was understood correctly to begin with. What's more, after rereading your reply a couple of times, I can't tell from your answer whether or not I, as a stand-alone SAS user would be able to leverage Amazon's EC2 services at all...that is, without the purchase of some SAS HP product like "SAS on demand." You see, Jaap, I'm cheap and don't want to pay any more money for this capability or introduce any more complications into things than I have to. If I can go straight to Amazon for this and eliminate SAS as a middleman without violating my contractual agreements, then great!, that is what I want. Hacking my way into the cloud with SAS is not something I aspire to. If I can't then I'm not interested in Amazon's service as it relates to running and enhancing SAS and will switch to R or some other analytic software that I know can be used with EC2. Does this make sense to you? If it's not clear, please let me know and I will try asking it another way that is.
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