Get Started with Amazon EMR

This Amazon EMR Getting Started Guide provides a high-level overview of the features found in Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR). After reading this guide, you should understand the basics of Amazon EMR. These examples show you how to use the Amazon EMR command line interface to create Hadoop streaming and Hive job flows, and how to use the Amazon EMR console to monitor and debug running job flows.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (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.

You can get started with Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) by following the tasks shown in the following diagram.

This guide walks you through launching and managing job flows. To start, click the following Sign Up button to get started using Amazon EMR for the first time.