Hello Amandeep,


----- Original Message ----
> From: Amandeep Khurana <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Fri, December 10, 2010 1:14:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Hadoop/Elastic MR on AWS
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Using EMR makes it very easy to start a cluster and add/reduce  capacity as
> and when required. There are certain optimizations that make EMR  an
> attractive choice as compared to building your own cluster out. Using  EMR


Could you please point out what optimizations you are referring to?

Thanks,
Otis
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> also ensures you are using a production quality, stable system backed by  the
> EMR engineers. You can always use bootstrap actions to put your own  tweaked
> version of Hadoop in there if you want to do that.
> 
> Also, you  don't have to tear down your cluster after every job. You can set
> the alive  option when you start your cluster and it will stay there even
> after your  Hadoop job completes.
> 
> If you face any issues with EMR, send me a mail  offline and I'll be happy to
> help.
> 
> -Amandeep
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 9,  2010 at 9:47 PM, Mark <[email protected]>  wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have any thoughts/experiences on running Hadoop  in AWS? What
> > are some pros/cons?
> >
> > Are there any good  AMI's out there for this?
> >
> > Thanks for any advice.
> >
> 

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