Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its Elastic MapReduce console, making it easier to manage large amounts of data. The update centers on providing better usability and access to new features that ...

Amazon announced the release of Elastic MapReduce (EMR) 5.0.0 today, which includes, among other things, support for 16 open source Hadoop projects. As AWS continues to hone its various tools to help ...

A partial graphic showing which Hadoop projects have been upgraded within EMR 5.0.0. (Via AWS.) Amazon Web Services said it has released version 5.0.0 of its Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service, which ...

Peter Sirota, General Manager of Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce service, spoke at length at the AWS Gov Summit 2011 about the benefits of Hadoop and MapReduce and the company’s own Elastic Map Reduce ...