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.

Amazon EMR (previously known as Amazon Elastic MapReduce) is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) tool for big data processing and analysis. Amazon markets EMR as an expandable, low-configuration service that ...

Amazon WebServices has posted a video on YouTube showing how you can get started using Elastic MapReduce to handle large datasets quickly. The webinar, which is around 50 minutes long, show how to set ...

Gazzang, a provider of data security solutions, has released Gazzang CloudEncrypt, offering data encryption and key management at every stage of the Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) data lifecycle. The ...

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 ...