Getting Started Guide: Analyzing Big Data with AWS

by Amazon Web Services

Big data—data sets that are too large to store in a traditional relational database and that require distributed applications for processing—can be expensive and complicated to manage. Moving your data to the cloud can reduce storage and analysis costs and simplify administration. This guide explains how to use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to store big data, Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances (virtual servers) to process it, and Amazon Elastic MapReduce to manage the details of storage, cluster configuration, monitoring, and analysis.

156 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 29, 2012

Reviews

[Daniel Aguilar · Rating 3 out of 5]

A brief set of tutorials on setting up a basic infrastructure to try Big Data in AWS. It's OK as quick and basic intro but doesn't get at all beyond surface. I read the January 2016 updated version.