Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) Developer Guide

This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR). This guide provides a conceptual overview of Amazon EMR, an overview of how related AWS products work with Amazon EMR, and detailed information on Amazon EMR functionality.

Amazon EMR is a data analysis tool that simplifies the set-up and management of a computer cluster, the source data, and the computational tools that help you implement sophisticated data processing jobs quickly. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/elastic-mapreduce/.