Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its Elastic MapReduce console, making it easier to manage large amounts of data. The update centers on providing better usability and access to new features ...

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 ...

Hunk, Splunk's analytics package that runs atop Hadoop and NoSQL data stores, becomes available Oct. 28 in Amazon EC2.

Hadoop in the cloud To access Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce, your first stop is your Amazon Web Services account page (assuming you have an account with AWS), where you must sign up for the Elastic ...

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 ...

Pipelines can run across EC2, Elastic MapReduce clusters, and the user’s own hardware. Pipelines can be set up in the AWS Management Console or by writing a script.

A partial graphic showing which Hadoop projects have been upgraded within EMR 5.0.0. (Via AWS.) Amazon Web Services said it has released version 5.0.0 of its Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service, which ...