Focus on Amazon Elastic MapReduce featuring a discussion with Foursquare & Didit

Dear AWS members,

We would like to invite you to our first fall 2011 event. This event will include a technical presentation from the local AWS team as well as a discussion with Foursquare and Didit about their experiences using the service. Solution Architects from Amazon Web Services will also be on hand to answer your questions.

Look forward to see you all. This event is free...however RSVP is required.

Best

Jag

Event Agenda

Welcome/Introductions

News Announcements

EMR Presentation and Demo

Random Access - feedback and topics for future sessions

What is EMR?

Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Using Amazon Elastic MapReduce, you can instantly provision as much or as little capacity as you like to perform data-intensive tasks for applications such as web indexing, data mining, log file analysis, data warehousing, machine learning, financial analysis, scientific simulation, and bioinformatics research. Amazon Elastic MapReduce lets you focus on crunching or analyzing your data without having to worry about time-consuming set-up, management or tuning of Hadoop clusters or the compute capacity upon which they sit.