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Category: Amazon EMR
New – Amazon EMR Instance Fleets
Today we’re excited to introduce a new feature for Amazon EMR clusters called instance fleets. Instance fleets gives you a wider variety of options and intelligence around instance provisioning. You can now provide a list of up to 5 instance types with corresponding weighted capacities and spot bid prices (including spot blocks)! EMR will automatically provision […]
Read MoreHuman Longevity, Inc. – Changing Medicine Through Genomics Research
Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI) is at the forefront of genomics research and wants to build the world’s largest database of human genomes along with related phenotype and clinical data, all in support of preventive healthcare. In today’s guest post, Yaron Turpaz, Bryan Coon, and Ashley Van Zeeland talk about how they are using AWS to […]
Read MoreAdditional At-Rest and In-Transit Encryption Options for Amazon EMR
Our customers use Amazon EMR (including Apache Hadoop and the full range of tools that make up the Apache Spark ecosystem) to handle many types of mission-critical big data use cases. For example: Yelp processes over a terabyte of log files and photos every day. Expedia processes streams of clickstream, user interaction, and supply data. […]
Read MoreAmazon EMR 5.0.0 – Major App Updates, UI Improvements, Better Debugging, and More
The Amazon EMR team has been cranking out new releases at a fast and furious pace! Here’s a quick recap of this year’s launches: EMR 4.7.0 – Updates to Apache Tez, Apache Phoenix, Presto, HBase, and Mahout (June). EMR 4.6.0 – HBase for realtime access to massive datasets (April). EMR 4.5.0 – Updates to Hadoop, […]
Read MoreAmazon EMR 4.7.0 – Apache Tez & Phoenix, Updates to Existing Apps
Amazon EMR allows you to quickly and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. Since the 2009 launch, we have added many new features and support for an ever-increasing roster of applications from the Hadoop ecosystem. Here are a few of the additions that we have made this year: April – Support for Apache HBase 1.2 […]
Read MoreAmazon EMR Update – Apache HBase 1.2 Is Now Available
Apache HBase is a distributed, scalable big data store designed to support tables with billions of rows and millions of columns. HBase runs on top of Hadoop and HDFS and can also be queried using MapReduce, Hive, and Pig jobs. AWS customers use HBase for their ad tech, web analytics, and financial services workloads. They […]
Read MoreAmazon EMR 4.4.0 – Sqoop, HCatalog, Java 8, and More
Rob Leidle, Development Manager for Amazon EMR, wrote the guest post below to introduce you to the latest and greatest version! — Jeff; Today we are announcing Amazon EMR release 4.4.0, which adds support for Apache Sqoop (1.4.6) and Apache HCatalog 1.0.0, an upgraded release of Apache Mahout (0.11.1), and upgraded sandbox releases for Presto […]
Read MoreAmazon EMR Update – Support for EBS Volumes, and M4 & C4 Instance Types
My colleague Abhishek Sinha wrote the guest post below to tell you about the latest additions to Amazon EMR. — Jeff; Amazon EMR is a service that allows you to use distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark and Presto to process data on a managed cluster of EC2 instances. Newer versions […]
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