The main different is the operation interface and the hadoop version. You can use any version of hadoop as long as you can find suitable hadoop versions. Elastic Mapreduce only supports 0.18.3.
Song 2010/2/8 prasenjit mukherjee <[email protected]> > Not sure I understand. How is it different from using plain ec2 with > hadoop-specific AMIs ? > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Sirota, Peter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Elastic MapReduce uses Hadoop .18.3 with several patches that improve S3N > > performance/reliability. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kay Kay [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 9:43 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: aws > > > > Peter, > > Out of curiosity - What is the version of Hadoop DFS and M-R are > > being used behind the scenes ? > > > > > > On 2/2/10 11:26 PM, Sirota, Peter wrote: > > > Hi Brian, > > > > > > AWS has Elastic MapReduce service where you can run Hadoop starting at > > > 10 cents per hour. Check it out at > > > http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce > > > > > > Disclamer: I work at AWS > > > > > > > > > Sent from my phone > > > > > > On Feb 2, 2010, at 11:09 PM, "Brian Wolf"<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> Can anybody tell me if there aws/amazon has any kind of hadoop > > >> sandbox > > >> to play in for free? > > >> > > >> Thanks > > >> > > >> Brian > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > >
