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Tag: Amazon Elastic MapReduce
New Elastic MapReduce Locations (Singapore and Tokyo) and Features
Our customers have become very adept at using Amazon Elastic MapReduce to chew through vast amounts of data in short order. As a switch from the corporate examples that I usually provide, I’d like to tell you about a slightly more personal one. My son Stephen is working on his PhD in Finance at the […]
Read MoreElastic MapReduce Updates – Hive, Multipart Upload, JDBC, Squirrel SQL
I have a number of Elastic MapReduce updates for you: Support for S3’s Large Objects and Multipart Upload Upgraded Hive Support JDBC Drivers for Hive A tutorial on the use of Squirrel SQL with Elastic MapReduce Support for S3’s Large Objects and Multipart Upload We recently introduced an important new feature for Amazon S3 the […]
Read MoreAmazon Elastic MapReduce – Now Even Stretchier!
Our customers have used Amazon Elastic MapReduce to process very large-scale data sets using an array of Amazon EC2 instances. One such customer, Seattle’s Razorfish, was able to side-step the need for a capital investment of over $500K while also speeding up their daily processing cycle (read more in our Razorfish case study). Our implementation […]
Read MoreNew Elastic MapReduce Feature: Bootstrap Actions
When you launch an Amazon Elastic MapReduce job flow, the Hadoop job is run on a a generic AMI that we supply. Until now, there’s been no easy way to customize the image by modifying configuration files or installing additional software. By popular demand, we now support bootstrap actions for each Elastic MapReduce job flow. […]
Read MoreDebug your Elastic MapReduce job flows in the AWS Management Console
We are excited to announce that weve added support for job flow debugging in the AWS Management Console making Elastic MapReduce even easier to use for developing large data processing and analytics applications. This capability allows customers to track progress and identify issues in the steps, jobs, tasks, or task attempts of their job flows. […]
Read MoreCloud MapReduce from Accenture
Accenture is a Global Solution Provider for AWS. As part of their plan to help their clients extend their IT provisioning capabilities into the cloud, they offer a complete Cloud Computing Suite including the Accenture Cloud Computing Accelerator, the Cloud Computing Assessment Tool, the Cloud Computing Data Processing Solution, and the Accenture Web Scaler. Huan […]
Read MoreFotopedia and AWS
Hi there, this is Simone Brunozzi, Technology Evangelist for AWS in Europe. I’ll steal the keyboard from Jeff Barr for a few minutes to share something really interesting with you: in fact, It is always fascinating to see how our customers are using the Amazon Web Services to power their businesses. Olivier Gutknecht, Director of […]
Read MoreExpanding the AWS Footprint
A new AWS Region is online and available for use! Our new Northern California (US-West) Region supports Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, SimpleDB, SQS, Elastic MapReduce, Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing. The AWS documentation contains the new endpoints for each service. The existing Amazon S3 US Standard Region provides good, cost-effective performance for […]
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