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 ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch - Hadoop - HBase Hadoop ecosystem search :: http://search-hadoop.com/ > 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. > > >
