Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic MapReduce (EMR) was among the first Hadoop offerings available in the market. Here is a high-level architecture/job flow of Amazon EMR.
Source: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticMapReduce/latest/DeveloperGuide/emr-what-is-emr.html
Amazon EMR contains most of the popular features/components like Hive, Pig, HBase, DistCp, Ganglia, etc. integrated into it.
Here are few highlights of Amazon EMR:
- EMR is a Hadoop distribution in the Cloud.
- Leverages AWS's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for computation.
- Leverages AWS's Simple Storage Service (S3) for storage.
- Is tightly integrated with other AWS services.
- Deployment and Management is simplified using AWS Management Console and AWS Toolkit.
Links & Additional Information
- Amazon's Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
- AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
- Amazon EMR Articles/Tutorials
- Amazon EMR Forum
Getting Started