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Introduction to Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
Course Introduction
Difficulty
Beginner
Duration
11m
Students
3258
Ratings
4.7/5
Description

This course provides an introduction to the big data processing service known as Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, commonly referred to as EMR. You will learn the characteristics of the service and its base architecture.

If you have any feedback relating to this course, feel free to contact us at support@cloudacademy.com.

Learning Objectives

The objectives of this course are to provide a foundational understanding of Amazon Elastic MapReduce, allowing you to learn what it is, some of its characteristics, and its base architecture.

Intended Audience

This course is ideal for those looking to become a data scientist or a solutions architect. Also, if you are studying for the AWS Data Analytics - Specialty certification, then this provides a great insight into EMR before diving deeper on the service.

Prerequisites

To get the most from this course, you should have a basic knowledge of the AWS platform. Some understanding of big data processing would also be beneficial.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to this course where I shall be introducing you to the big data processing service known as Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, commonly referred to as EMR.  

My name is Stuart Scott, and I am the AWS content and security lead here at Cloud Academy. Feel free to connect with me to ask any questions using the details shown on the screen, alternatively you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an e-mail to support@cloudacademy.com where one of our Cloud experts will reply to your question.

This course has been designed to provide a foundational understanding to EMR and is ideal for those looking to become a data scientist or a solutions architect. Also, if you are studying for the AWS Data Analytics - Specialty certification, then this provides a great insight into EMR before diving deeper on the service.

The objectives of this course are to provide with a foundational understanding of Amazon Elastic MapReduce, allowing you to learn what it is, some of its characteristics, in addition to its base architecture

Feedback on our courses here at Cloud Academy is valuable to both us as trainers and any students looking to take the same course in the future. If you have any feedback, positive or negative, it would be greatly appreciated if you could contact support@cloudacademy.com.

 

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Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data center and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.

To date, Stuart has created 150+ courses relating to Cloud reaching over 180,000 students, mostly within the AWS category and with a heavy focus on security and compliance.

Stuart is a member of the AWS Community Builders Program for his contributions towards AWS.

He is AWS certified and accredited in addition to being a published author covering topics across the AWS landscape.

In January 2016 Stuart was awarded ‘Expert of the Year Award 2015’ from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.

Stuart enjoys writing about cloud technologies and you will find many of his articles within our blog pages.