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Limits to the Cloud

Image of a function illustrating limits,courtesy One Sage Calculus

Image of a limit courtesy One Sage Math Calculus Tutorial

While Amazon Redshift offers “fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service… for just $0.25 per hour with no commitments or upfront costs and scale to a petabyte or more for $1,000 per terabyte per year” (and I can do it for less – see below) there are limits to the cloud.

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