Advantage of EMR is that you dont have to stay screwing around with installing hadoop it does all that for you so you are ready to go
--- Regards, Jonathan Aquilina Founder Eagle Eye T On 2015-03-05 23:51, Krish Donald wrote: > Because I am new to AWS, I would like to explore the free service first and > then later I can use EMR. > Which one is fast in EC2 and free too? > > Thanks > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Jonathan Aquilina <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I have experience with my full time job using EMR damn thing is quick and > cheap. The interesting part is wrapping your head around the concepts. If you > need things quickly and fast EMR is the way to go. It spawns up a number of > ec2 instances > > by default you have 1 master and 2 core nodes. The three of them are m3.large > nodes which run you 7 cents per hour. to run one years with of data which is > about 1.1 billion records from the database it took 50 min from cluster spawn > up to completion and shutting down of the cluster. > > --- > Regards, > Jonathan Aquilina > Founder Eagle Eye T > > On 2015-03-05 23:41, Dieter De Witte wrote: > You can install Hadoop on Amazon EC2 instances and use the free tier for new > members but you can also use Amazon EMR which is not free but is up and > running in a couple of seconds... > > 2015-03-05 23:28 GMT+01:00 Krish Donald <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > I am tired of setting Hadoop cluster using my laptop which has 8GB RAM. > I tried 2gb for namenode and 1-1 gb for 3 datanoded so total 5gb I was using > . > And I was using very basic Hadoop services only. > But it is so slow that I am not able to do anything on that. > > Hence I would like to try the AWS service now. > > Can anybody please help me, which configuration I should use it without > paying at all? > What are the tips you have for AWS ? > > Thanks > Krish
