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 ...

Customers can use MapReduce to pay by the sip as they do things like index the Web, mine data, and conduct financial analysis or bioinformatics research. Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud ...

Another morning, another projects involving Hadoop and the cloud. This time, Amazon's the proprietor, announcing the beta launch on Thursday of their the blog post describes as "a web service that ...