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 ...

Create a new VM Click VirtualBox’s Add toolbar button, give the VM a name, and set Type to Linux, and Version to Other Linux, with the appropriate bit (32 or 64) parameter matching your distro.

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.