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Launching Amazon Elastic MapReduce Job Flows with Spot Instances
You can launch an Amazon Elastic MapReduce job flow in Spot Instances. Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a data analysis tool that simplifies the set up and management of a computer cluster, the source data, and the computational tools that help you implement sophisticated data processing jobs quickly. For more information, see Introduction to Amazon Elastic MapReduce.
Quick Look: Using Spot Instances with Amazon Elastic MapReduce Video
The following video describes how Spot Instances work in Amazon EMR and walks you through the process of launching a job flow on Spot Instances from the AWS Management Console.
