AWS Big Data Blog

Erik Swensson is an AWS Solutions Architect. AWS Solutions Architect Patrick Shumate also contributed to this post. This post explores customer options for building multi-region or multi-availability zone (AZ) clusters. By default, Amazon Redshift has excellent tools to back up your cluster via snapshot to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). These snapshots can be […]

The advertising space is going through a rapid transformation and many of the companies driving this change are using AWS services like Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon CloudFront.  If you work for an ad tech company in the San Francisco area, you should consider attending a free, one-day event for […]

Jonathan Fritz is a Senior Product Manager for Amazon EMR ———————– Please note – Amazon EMR now officially supports Spark. For more information about Spark on EMR, visit the Spark on Amazon EMR page or read Intent Media’s guest post on the AWS Big Data Blog about Spark on EMR. ——–————— Over the last five […]

Karthik Krishnan is an AWS Solutions Architect UPDATE April 6, 2015: The newest quickstart reference guide supports Cloudera Director 1.1.0. To manage your cluster with Cloudera Director 1.1.0, refer to the updated reference guide.  Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework to store and process large scale data-sets.  In this post, we discuss the deployment of […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS. Brad Helicher, Director of Cloud Business at Attunity, also contributed to this post. Attunity is an APN Big Data Competency Partner. Introduction University of Maryland University College’s mission is to provide a quality education at an affordable cost to busy professionals, mainly adults who are juggling […]

Jonathan Fritz is a Senior Product Manager for Amazon EMR. AWS Solutions Architect Manjeet Chayel also contributed to this post. The EMR File System (EMRFS) is an implementation of HDFS that allows Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) clusters to store data on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Many Amazon EMR customers use it to […]

Markus Schmidberger is a Senior Big Data Consultant for AWS Professional Services Big Data is on every CIO’s mind. It is synonymous with technologies like Hadoop and the ‘NoSQL’ class of databases. Another technology shaking things up in Big Data is R. This blog post describes how to set up R, RHadoop packages and RStudio […]

This is a guest post by Kyle Porter, a Sales Engineer at Simba Technologies. Jon Einkauf, a Senior Product Manager for Amazon Elastic MapReduce and AWS Senior Technical Writer Jeff Slone also contributed to this post. —————- Note: Ports have changed on EMR 4.x,. Before walking through this post, please consult the EMR documentation to […]

Rahul Bhartia is an AWS Solutions Architect Introduction Hadoop provides a great ecosystem of tools for extracting value from data in various formats and sizes. Originally focused on large-batch processing with tools like MapReduce, Pig and Hive, Hadoop now provides many tools for running interactive queries on your data, such as Impala, Drill, and Presto. […]

Biff Gaut is a Solutions Architect with AWS Introduction With the introduction of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) access logs, administrators have a tremendous amount of data describing all traffic through their ELB. While Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) and some partner tools are excellent solutions for ongoing, extensive analysis of this traffic, they can require […]