I think found answer to this question. However, it's still not clear if HDFS is on local disk or EBS volumes. Does anyone know?
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com>wrote: > Just want to check how many are using AWS mapreduce and understand the > pros and cons of Amazon's MapReduce machines? Is it true that these map > reduce machines are really reading and writing from S3 instead of local > disks? Has anyone found issues with Amazon MapReduce and how does it > compare with using MapReduce on local attached disks compared to using S3.