Note: Using AWS costs money. When you set up an AWS account as explained here, you must provide a credit card number. Amazon typically charges for the time you run an instance of a virtual machine ...

For example, with Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) you can build a Hadoop cluster within AWS without the expense and hassle of provisioning physical machines. Before I show you how to create a ...

With the rise of Linux, Docker and AWS, it is important to understand how ulimits work, what they impact and how to configure them.

Recent research indicates that Amazon's EC2 cloud is made up of almost half-a-million servers--each of them running a variation of Red Hat Linux for their base operating system.