You could also choose to look at Amazon ElasticMapReduce. It allows you to provision an EC2 cluster of your choice preinstalled with Hive and Hadoop.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HiveAmazonElasticMapReduce Thanks Vaibhav -----Original Message----- From: MIS [mailto:misapa...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 11:03 PM To: u...@hive.apache.org; hive Subject: Hive in EC2 Hi, Can somebody point me to production level setup of Hive in EC2. The intent is to know the setup best practices being employed. Thanks.