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Big Data on Amazon: Elastic MapReduce, step by step

Summary: Curious how to go about doing Hadoop in Amazon's cloud? Here's some guidance.

Andrew Brust

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Configure EC2 instances

In the Configure EC2 Instances screen, you'll need to select an Instance Type for your Master and Core Instance groups.  Amazon's "m1.large" instance type is the minimum required for an EMR cluster.  If you're creating a cluster just for learning purposes, this will be your least expensive and therefore most sensible option.  Select it for both the Master Instance Group and Core Instance Group.

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