Hadoop Cluster and Amazon EMR

Accenture calculated the total cost of ownership of a bare-metal Hadoop cluster and derived the capacity of nine different cloud-based Hadoop clusters at the matched TCO. The performance of each option was then compared by running three real-world Hadoop applications.  The full report is here:

http://www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/insight-hadoop-deployment-comparison.aspx

There report compares the performance of both a bare-metal Hadoop cluster and Amazon ElasticMapReduce (Amazon EMR).

Oracle on EBusiness Suite Case Study in detail

Nice detailed case study of running Oracle EBusiness Suite on AWS:
http://www.bluegecko.net/download/sage-manufacturing-on-ec2-case-study.pdf

Oracle EBusiness Suite Case Study

Imperia & Monferrina moved Oracle EBusiness to AWS:
 “By hosting Oracle eBusiness Suite on AWS, we reduced capital expenses by 50 percent, and operating expenses by 15 percent.”

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/imperia-monferrina/