Hi, I have been using SAS for over a year with an on-premise Server-based solution with roughly 10 users. From my experience so far, the I/O has been the bottleneck when it comes to multiple queries. For a new project I am playing with the idea to set it up as a cloud solution. The options I see so far are: • Amazon Redshift (Data Warehouse) + Amazon EC2 for the SAS virtual server • SAS Cloud Analytics + Amazon Redshift (Data Warehouse) • maybe others? My questions so far: • For a set-up of 10 SAS users what are the options for building a cloud SAS solution for analytics and information marts? • What should be considered when calculating the costs? Is there a calculator that does rough estimates based on users, data size, expected queries? • What are the differences in performance for on premise vs in the cloud? • What are the differences in terms of pricing? At what point does it make sense to have an on-premise solution? Thank you in advance!
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