Amazon EMR (previously known as Amazon Elastic MapReduce) is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) tool for big data processing and analysis. Amazon markets EMR as an expandable, low-configuration service that ...

Have you got a few hundred gigabytes of data that need processing? Perhaps a dump of radio telescope data that could use some combing through by a squad of processors running Fourier transforms? Or ...

This year has already been marked as the year of “big data” in the cloud, with major PaaS players, such as Amazon, Google, Heroku, IBM and Microsoft, getting a lot of publicity. But which providers ...

Amazon Web Services’ EMR (Elastic MapReduce) service has been upgraded to handle Spark applications, giving enterprises that want to use the increasingly popular processing engine a way to do so ...