BigData Options on AWS

Our inaugural meeting is going to cover Hadoop and Big Data options in Amazon Web Services. ..

This will be held in the newly opened AWS office in Herndon.

Address: AWS, 12900 Worldgate Drive, 8th Floor, Herndon, VA

6:00 PM - Registration and Networking

6:45 PM - Presentation and technical discussions on building your own Hadoop cluster on AWS vs. using EMR, and how either option can be used to integrate with Redshift. Joe Baron will discuss the options to conduct big data processing using S3, EMR, RedShift, Dynamo DB and the newly minted Kinesis.

Speaker: Joe Baron, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Demo [Hadoop on AWS] Unstructured data processing on EMR, S3 - Utilizing AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR) for development/execution of large US Patent Corpus comprising of Raw Patent text data in weekly gzipped format and Patent Meta-data in csv format. Apache Solr and MongoDB was the combined indexing platform hosted in AWS - Sameer Wadkar

8:15 PM Post Session Networking

Sponsors: Location, Food - Amazon Web Services (http://aws.amazon.com/)

There will be some free AWS credits for attendees. Show up to Win!