Understanding the AWS analytics suite of services
With the growth of big data and its adoption across organizations on the rise, many cloud providers today provide a plethora of services that are specifically designed to run massive computations and analytics on large volumes of data. AWS is one such cloud provider that also has invested a lot into the big data and analytics paradigm with a host of services offering ready-to-use frameworks, business insights and data warehousing solutions, as well. Here is a brief explanation of the AWS analytics suite of services:
- Amazon EMR: Amazon Elastic MapReduce or EMR is a quick and easy to use service that provides users with a scalable, managed Hadoop ecosystem and framework. You can leverage EMR to process vast amounts of data without having to worry about configuring the underlying Hadoop platform. We will be learning and exploring more on EMR in the subsequent sections of this chapter.
- Amazon Athena: Amazon Athena takes big data processing up a...
