Amazon’s announcement of a cloud-based data mining and analysis service, using the Hadoop implementation of MapReduce, potentially opens advanced business intelligence activities to many more businesses and organizations. Think of it as having your own tuned supercomputer that you can plug gigantic data sets into and ask questions that will determine the course of your businesses for the next decade. Oh, and you can pay for the pleasure on a credit card.
Amazon’s BI-on-the-Fly Using MapReduce-as-a-Service Brings Huge Cloud Data Crunching to the Masses
January 22, 2010