Context

• What: Setup a FREE n-node cluster running Hadoop on Amazon EC2
• Need: Amazon EC2 account, SSH client
• How: Will be explained here

Learning

• Amazon EC2 is awesome! even more for students
• We can create and run our apps on a cluster without spending a dime
• Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on EC2 with all software you want and reuse it
• secure public/private keys make life easy with SSH