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Welcome
This is the Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) Developer Guide. This guide provides a conceptual overview of Amazon EMR, an overview of related AWS products, and detailed information on all functionality available from Amazon EMR.
Amazon EMR is a web service that makes it easy to process large amounts of data efficiently. Amazon EMR uses Hadoop processing combined with several AWS products to do such tasks as web indexing, data mining, log file analysis, machine learning, scientific simulation, and data warehousing.
How Do I...?
| How Do I? | Relevant Sections |
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| Decide whether Amazon EMR is right for my needs | Amazon Elastic MapReduce detail page |
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Get started with Amazon EMR | Getting Started Guide |
| Learn about troubleshooting job flows | Troubleshooting |
| Learn how to create a job flow | Creating a Job Flow |
| Learn about bootstrap actions | Bootstrap Actions |
| Learn about Hadoop cluster configuration | Hadoop Configuration |
| Learn about the Amazon EMR API | Calling the Amazon EMR API |
| Compare different job flow types | Appendix: Compare Job Flow Types |
