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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 ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

NEW YORK-Amazon Web Services has moved to make the Hadoop framework for handling large data sets easier to use, more manageable and more productive with new support in the Amazon Elastic MapReduce ...

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 ...