Kevin, The API accepts any arguments you can pass in the standard jobconf for Hadoop 18.3, it is pretty easy to convert over an existing jobflow to a JSON job description that will run on the service.
-Pete On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Kevin Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > So if I understand correctly, this is an automated system to bring up a > hadoop cluster on EC2, import some data from S3, run a job flow, write the > data back to S3, and bring down the cluster? > > This seems like a pretty good deal. At the pricing they are offering, > unless > I'm able to keep a cluster at more than about 80% capacity 24/7, it'll be > cheaper to use this new service. > > Does this use an existing Hadoop job control API, or do I need to write my > flows to conform to Amazon's API? > -- Peter N. Skomoroch 617.285.8348 http://www.datawrangling.com http://delicious.com/pskomoroch http://twitter.com/peteskomoroch
