Summary: In this article, I provide a brief update on the development of content for the Resources and Design Principles chapters in the "Architecting for the AWS Platform" video series for O'Reilly Media.

During the past week I've been working on the following chapters of the O'Reilly training series:

• Resources …

Summary: In part one of Experimenting with Hadoop MapReduce on the AWS Platform, we developed an Amazon VPC environment suitable as the foundation to deploy Hadoop MapReduce. In part two, we present an Amazon CloudFormation template that can be used to automate the creation of the aforementioned environment. We also …

Summary: In this article, we present a solution architecture suitable as a foundation for a Hadoop MapReduce pilot on the AWS platform. We start by considering under what circumstances an organisation may want to manage their own Hadoop MapReduce platform on EC2 instead of simply using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce …