Using the Amazon Cloud

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Intro

Please fill the blanks on this page as you start using the Amazon Web Services.

Cost

Pietro's guidance from lab meeting 10/21/2008: compare the cost to your $1000 plane ticket to a conference. $200-300 is reasonable, $10K is not.

Amazon's pricing guide

Tools

  • Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2
  • Hadoop is an open source version of Google's MapReduce Framework to distribute data and processing over a large number of machines.
    • MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters. Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. 2004. PDF
    • Map-Reduce for Machine Learning on Multicore. Chu et al. NIPS 2007. PDF
    • Google News Personalization: Scalable Online Collaborative Filtering. Das et al. WWW2007. PDF
    • Hadoop on Amazon EC2
  • Amazon Elastic MapReduce

Datasets

You can ask Amazon to put public datasets for free access at Public Datasets on AWS.

Tips and Tricks

Please share your tips, tricks and hacks.