Currently in beta, Elastic MapReduce uses Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) to implement a virtualized distributed processing system based on Apache Hadoop.

The Hadoop framework for handling large data sets becomes easier to use, more manageable and more productive with new support in the Amazon Elastic MapReduce technology, according to Amazon.com.

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 ...

Hunk is a relatively new product from Splunk for exploring and visualizing Hadoop and other NoSQL data stores. New in this release is support for Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce.

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 ...

Called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, the cloud computing service is aimed at developers whose applications need to crunch large amounts of data, for which Hadoop is ideally suited.

At the AWS Gov 2011 summit, general manager for Amazon Web Services' Elastic Map Reduce offering, Peter Sirota provided some prime use cases for its hosted Hadoop service and highlighted innovative ...

Translating something into a MapReduce process seems a little unnatural — especially if you, like me, come from a background in relational databases. Thankfully, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy Lin and Douglas W ...

Using Amazon Elastic MapReduce, you can instantly provision as much or as little capacity as you like to perform data-intensive tasks for applications such as web indexing, data mining, log file ...