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I may have heard of map reduce, but I have no idea what EMR is; turns out its map reduce (not sure what the E is for).
by tantalor 8y ago
I may have heard of map reduce, but I have no idea what EMR is; turns out its map reduce (not sure what the E is for).
- oblio 8y agoFor most AWS stuff, "E" stands for "Elastic".
- RossM 8y agoMy favourite AWS naming was when E became EC2, as in ECS.
- jordigh 8y agoI always thought it should have become E3CS. I recall there's some old lisp manual that followed this kind of naming scheme.
- nhumrich 8y agoEC3S
- paulddraper 8y agoECS is Elastic Container Service. Which is good, otherwise ECS Fargate wouldn't have made a lot of sense. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/ https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/
- tantalor 8y agoSure but what does that mean.
- arghwhat 8y agoVariable (i.e. elastic) capacity. That is, scalable, adaptive, "cloud", whatever you want to call it.