You’ll want to be familiar with the Apache Hadoop framework before you jump into Elastic MapReduce. It doesn’t take long to get the hang of it, though. Most developers can have a MapReduce application ...

Amazon has announced a new way to process large amounts of data, dubbed Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, that combines the company’s cloud computing infrastructure with the Hadoop open source framework.

Amazon announced the release of Elastic MapReduce (EMR) 5.0.0 today, which includes, among other things, support for 16 open source Hadoop projects. As AWS continues to hone its various tools to help ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...

Peter Sirota, General Manager of Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce service, spoke at length at the AWS Gov Summit 2011 about the benefits of Hadoop and MapReduce and the company’s own Elastic Map Reduce ...

Amazon.com has launched a hosted service designed to simplify for developers the use of the Hadoop implementation of the MapReduce programming model for processing large data sets in processor ...

A partial graphic showing which Hadoop projects have been upgraded within EMR 5.0.0. (Via AWS.) Amazon Web Services said it has released version 5.0.0 of its Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service, which ...

In this blog post, Rinivasan Sundara Ragan takes a look at how the value of Cloud computing to the automotive enterprise is its ability to perform processing of large amounts of information using ...

Have you got a few hundred gigabytes of data that need processing? Perhaps a dump of radio telescope data that could use some combing through by a squad of processors running Fourier transforms? Or ...