As follow-up to the UK IUA 2010 and the video of the Ingres VectorWise demonstration the Ingres Emerging Technologies Team has created an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with a pre-installed evaluation copy of Ingres VectorWise.
The Ingres Community wiki page has some simple instructions to get started. As a guideline to the cost, I ran the image for a week and could probably run it for about 21 weeks to match the cost of a similarly specified bare metal machine. I uploaded data to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to reduce the cost of moving the data set and removing the need to run a machine for the transfer.
Fast track your Ingres VectorWise evaluation with the AMI.