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?
>



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