March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
358 pages
8h 12m
English
Content preview from AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition
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Powering Analytics Using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift
In the previous chapter, we learned about two really useful services that developers can leverage to build highly scalable and decoupled applications in the cloud: Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS.
In this chapter, we will be turning things up a notch and exploring two amazingly powerful AWS services that are ideal for processing and running large-scale analytics and data warehousing in the cloud: Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift.
Keeping this in mind, let's have a quick look at the various topics that we will be covering in this chapter:
- Understanding the AWS analytics suite of services with an in-depth look at Amazon EMR, along with its use cases and benefits
- Introducing a few key EMR concepts ...