Two New Tools for People Who Like Building Search Engines, Taking Over the World Etc.
_Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
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80 Legs
(Still in private beta)
80legs is a platform for running web-scale applications, or any application that requires fast access to data from across the entire Internet. We give developers access to the bandwidth and computing power of over 50,000 computers at prices anyone can afford. With 80legs, web-scale analyis is for everyone.