You can use Amazon Elastic MapReduce. It is a hosted Hadoop service which charges by the hour. Here is more information: http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/
There are also a bunch of sample applications and tutorials available here: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=265 Disclaimer: I work for Amazon Web Services. Best Regards, Peter- -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Zhang [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 4:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Environment for Hadoop Proto Typing - Amazon Web Services Amazon EC2 will charge you by hours, so I think it will fit for your requirement. Jeff Zhang On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Palikala, Rajendra (CCL) < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am planning to develop some proto-types on Hadoop for ETL to a > datwarehouse. But I don't have enough nodes (hardware/computers) to test the > performance of Hadoop. I want to give a demo on performance. I heard of > Amazon Web Services that they provide some services like this. But I am not > sure. Any one from the community knows any companies where they provide > these hardware on a monthly rent basis. Please advise. > > Thks, > Rajendra
