thanks, but at 5 bucks an hour for an entry-level instance (single 12GB GPU) I'm looking at 120 bucks a day if I don't want to constantly re-upload my dataset into MapD (a very slow operation judging by Mark Litwintschik's posts linked by you). That's a very very high price for such a modest hardware configuration, not to mention the more credible one which goes for an eye-watering 30 bucks an hour ie not much change from a grand a day. Not for us startup folk, clearly.
I have to say it seems your pricing for such a new entrant and before having built share, is bound to attract very stiff newcomer competition. "Interesting" business model.
MapD has a persistent store and normally customers would keep that on an EBS volume, so they don't have to reload their data every time they spin up an AWS instance.
