Overview

Amazon Web Services (AWS) evangelist Jinesh Varia presents Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce, a web service that simplifies the complexity of large-scale data processing operations for a growing ecosystem of AWS users. The product utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and addresses use cases that involve data mining, bio-informatics, financial simulation, file processing, and web indexing.

Related posts:

1. Jinesh Varia on Amazon Elastic MapReduce
2. Rich Wolski, “EUCALYPTUS – Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems”