When you launch an EMR cluster (or "job flow" in EMR terminology), it launches new EC2 instances, optionally with an Elastic IP assigned to the cluster's master host. One does not install EMR on existing EC2 (non-EMR) instances.
-----Original Message----- From: MIS [mailto:misapa...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:38 AM To: dev@hive.apache.org Cc: u...@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: Hive in EC2 But my concern is that I cannot run the Elastic Mapreduce on specific instances which we already own and have elastic IPs. If it is possible to do so, then using Hive EMR should be fine enough. Thanks, MIS On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Aggarwal, Vaibhav <vagg...@amazon.com>wrote: > 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. >