Programming Elastic MapReduce: Using AWS Services to Build an End-to-End Application

"Although you don't need a large computing infrastructure to process massive amounts of data with Apache Hadoop, it cans till be difficult to get started. This practical guide shows you how to quickly launch data analysis projects in the cloud using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR), the hosted Hadoop framework in Amazon Web Services (AWS).Authors Kevin Schmidt and Christopher Phillips demonstrate best practices for using EMR and various AWS and Apache technologies walking you through the construction of a sample Map Reduce log analysis application. Using code samples and example configurations, you'll learn how to assemble the building blocks necessary to solve your biggest data analysis problems.