Scoring in the Amazon Cloud
ADAPA on the Amazon Cloud uses the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) infrastructure and so ADAPA can be launched on different instance types (or virtual machines), availability zones, and regions as provided by Amazon EC2.
Availability Zones are distinct locations that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones. Regions consist of one or more Availability Zones, are geographically dispersed, and are located in separate geographic areas or countries. By launching an instance in a region closer to you and your customers, you insure shorter latency times.
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Available Amazon Cloud Regions US West Region (North California and Oregon) US East Region (North Virginia) EU (Ireland) Asia-Pacific (Singapore and Tokyo) South America (Sao Paulo) |
The more processing power or memory an instance has to offer, the more it costs. Currently, you can choose to launch ADAPA on the Amazon Cloud in 8 different types of virtual machines. You are only charged if an instance is running. Prices per hour (or partial hour) start at $0.99. Once you sign-up for ADAPA on the Amazon Cloud, you are able to launch ADAPA on different instances, availability zones, and regions concurrently by using the ADAPA Control Center.
Standard Instances: well suited for most decisioning solutions
| Small | Large | High-CPU Medium | Extra Large | High-CPU Extra Large |
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| $.99/hour 34M records/hour 64-bit platform 1 EC2 Unit 1 Virtual Core 1.7 GB RAM |
$1.50/hour 117M records/hour 64-bit platform 4 EC2 Unit 2 Virtual Cores 7.5 GB RAM |
$1.25/hour 128M records/hour 64-bit platform 5 EC2 Unit 2 Virtual Cores 1.7 GB RAM |
$2.50/hour 184M records/hour 64-bit platform 8 EC2 Unit 4 Virtual Cores 15 GB RAM |
$2.50/hour 330M records/hour 64-bit platform 20 EC2 Unit 8 Virtual Cores 7 GB RAM |
High-Memory Instances: for solutions with high-memory requirements
| High-Memory Extra Large | High-Memory Double Extra Large | High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large |
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| $2.00/hour 64-bit platform 6.5 EC2 Unit 2 Virtual Core 17.1 GB RAM |
$3.50/hour 64-bit platform 13 EC2 Unit 4 Virtual Cores 34.2 GB RAM |
$5.00/hour 64-bit platform 26 EC2 Unit 8 Virtual Cores 68.4 GB RAM |
In the Amazon Cloud, the amount of CPU that is allocated to a particular instance is expressed in terms of EC2 Compute Units. Several benchmarks and tests are used to manage the consistency and predictability of the performance of an EC2 Compute Unit. One EC2 Compute Unit provides the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor.
To compute number of records/hour, we used ten different predictive models, including various regression models, neural network, clustering and decision tree algorithms which were created in several statistical tools and then exported in the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) standard. The PMML models subsequently were deployed and executed in the different instance types. Performance numbers were then averaged across all the ten models and do not include data uploading times.
Data transfer in and out of the Amazon Cloud
The price is $0.99 per GB for transferring data between your client/application and your ADAPA Instance. It drops to $0.33 if you are transferring data between ADAPA and an application already on Amazon EC2 (instance to instance) in the same region.
