Suppose we create 250 GB of new data each week that needs to be analyzed and we have 8 local servers for that processing. A computer the speed of one EC2 instance takes 2 hours per GB to process the new data.

a. How long will it take us to process each weeks data locally?

b. How much would it cost to process the data locally assuming each server hour costs $4.50?

c. How many cloud compute instances would we need to complete the analysis in one hour?

d. How much does the computation cost to process the data with our cloud provider assuming that each server hour of compute time costs $0.075?

e. What is the transfer cost to move the data to the cloud provider assuming that each GB will cost $0.10 to transfer?

f. How long will it take to transfer the full 250 GB of data to the cloud provider assuming that they can sustain an average of 20 Mbits/second?

g. How much will it cost to process one weeks data in the cloud?

h. Compare the processing time and overall cost and make a recommendation as to whether or not this process should be moved to the cloud provider.