Elastic MapReduce: Running Hadoop in the AWS Cloud
Previous: Mastering AWS for Big Data: EC2, S3, and EMR
In the last post, we looked at the basic building blocks of AWS: EC2 and S3. But if you’re trying to run a massive Hadoop or Spark cluster, you don’t really want to be manually installing software on hundreds of individual EC2 instances. That’s where Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) comes in.