Running Hive on Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)

http://aws.amazon.com/articles/Elastic-MapReduce/2857
http://hortonworks.com/blog/the-data-lifecycle-part-three-booting-hcatalog-on-elastic-mapreduce/
http://lab.howie.tw/2012/06/now-you-can-use-hbase-on-amazon-emr.html
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/06/apache-hbase-on-emr.html
http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/12/how-to-use-impala-on-amazon-emr/

EMR : Hadoop as a Service

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