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Finding the sweet spot solution that is reasonably fast yet doesn't use much space is the art of cloud computing. Amazon and other cloud vendors are smart enough to set prices for computing and storage resources that try to maximize profit out of your data orchestration need.

For example, user-82e1b said, "The Alpine-based Osgeo images are about 1/10th the size as the Ubuntu-full-based image and appear to have gdal, hdf4, hdf5, and netcdf. Would need to test further though to make sure."