Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables the processing of large amounts of data.
Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/
See also hadoop mapreduce amazon-ec2 amazon-s3
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