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Tag: Amazon Elastic MapReduce

Cross-Region Export and Import of DynamoDB Tables

Two of the most frequent feature requests for Amazon DynamoDB involve backup/restore and cross-Region data transfer. Today we are addressing both of these requests with the introduction of a pair of scalable tools (export and import) that you can use to move data between a DynamoDB table and an Amazon S3 bucket. The export and […]

Analyze Large Data Sets on Elastic MapReduce Clusters With Impala

Impala is an open source query tool for Hadoop. You can use familiar SQL-like statements to activate Impala’s distributed in-memory query engine, allowing you to quickly and efficiently process large amounts of data. In many cases, Impala is significantly faster than Hive, allowing you to interact with your data in real-time. Impala can process data […]

Tag Your Elastic MapReduce Clusters

Amazon Elastic MapReduce gives you the power to process vast amounts of data using Hadoop, an open source parallel processing framework. Behind the scenes, each Elastic MapReduce cluster runs on an array of Amazon EC2 instances. These clusters can grow to hundreds or even thousands of instances, and you can even run several clusters at […]

Major Update to the Elastic MapReduce Console

Amazon ElasticMapReduce gives you the power to quickly and easily process vast amounts of data. You can launch Hadoop clusters that span hundreds or even thousands of nodes. We have launched a major upgrade to the Elastic MapReduce Console to improve usability and to give you access to a multitude of new features. Here’s a […]

Elastic MapReduce Updates – Hadoop 2.0 and More

The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team has been hard at work on a series of updates and new features. You now have access to Hadoop 2.2 and new versions of Hive,Pig, HBase, and Mahout.  Cluster startup time has been reduced, S3DistCp (for data movement), has been augmented, and MapR M7 is now supported. If you […]

New Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia – EC2, DynamoDB, S3, and Much More

It is time to expand the AWS footprint once again, with a new Region in Sydney, Australia. AWS customers in Australia can now enjoy fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services. New Region The new Sydney Region supports the following AWS services: A Tranquil Beach – Shoal Bay, Australia Amazon Elastic Compute […]