CS 383/Additional Materials

Amazon Web Services Instructions
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

=Additional materials for students in CS 383.=

Feel free to add links to any useful sites you find!

Cloud Service Providers
Cloud Services Comparison

Features
-Has a pricing calculator to estimate exactly how much money will be spent, http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

Pricing
-Pricing is pay-per-use similar to other Cloud services

-Offers a one month free trial once per user with $200 that will remove all funds when it expires, it does require a credit/debit card to sign up

Education Programs
-Grant program for one individual class, the program provides $250/month for faculty and $100/month for students

Map Reduce
Videos

-Here is an interesting analogy to help understand how Map Reduce works, http://ksat.me/map-reduce-a-really-simple-introduction-kloudo/

Tutorials

-Here is a reading tutorial featured on the Hadoop.apache website, http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/mapred_tutorial.html Page last edited 8-4-13

- The author explains what Hadoop is http://www.drdobbs.com/database/hadoop-the-lay-of-the-land/240150854 - He then goes on with instructions how to create your first simple MapReduce in Java http://www.drdobbs.com/database/hadoop-the-lay-of-the-land/240150854

Pig Latin
http://www.qubole.com/resources/cheatsheet/pig-function-cheat-sheet/