AmazonEC2 - HADOOP2 - Apache Software Foundation

Running Hadoop on Amazon EC2 Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a computing service. One allocates a set of hosts, and runs one's application on them, then, when done, de-allocates the hosts. Billing is hourly per host. Thus EC2 permits one to deploy Hadoop on a cluster without having to own and operate that cluster, but rather renting it on an hourly basis. If you run Hadoop on EC2 you might c

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"Cloudera also provides their [WWW] distribution for Hadoop as an EC2 AMI with single command deployment and support for Hive/Pig out of the box."