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The amount of machine capacity used to complete a particular request (for example SELECT, GET, PUT, and so on), normalized to the hourly capacity of a standard processor. Machine utilization is measured in machine hour increments.
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An organization that provides email mailbox hosting services. Mailbox providers are sometimes referred to as Internet Service Providers, even if they only provide mailbox services.
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The default route table that any new VPC subnet uses for routing. You can associate a subnet with a different route table of your choice. You can also change which route table is the main route table.
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Allows clients to access and manage AWS through a user-friendly interface. With this console, users can see all AWS services in one place, manage their AWS account, access AWS resources from any device and oversee their infrastructure in all regions.
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When sending a create job request for an import or export operation you describe your job in a text file called a manifest. The manifest file is a YAML-formatted file that specifies how to transfer data between your storage device and the AWS cloud.
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An executable that splits the raw data into key/value pairs. The reducer uses the output of the mapper, called the intermediate results, as its input.
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A way to add conditional parameter values to an AWS CloudFormation template. You specify mappings in the template's optional Mappings section and retrieve the desired value using the FN::FindInMap function.
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See http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.0/mapred_tutorial.html.
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- See pagination.
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A process running on an Amazon Machine Image that keeps track of the work its core and task nodes complete.
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- See resource.
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Amazon SQS: The identifier returned when you send a message to a queue.
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Amazon S3, Amazon EMR: A set of name/value pairs that describe the object. These include default metadata such as the date last modified and standard HTTP metadata such as Content-Type. Users can also specify custom metadata at the time they store an object.
Amazon EC2: Data about an EC2 instance that the instance can retrieve to determine things about itself, such as, the instance type, the IP address, and so on.
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An element of time-series data defined by a unique combination of exactly one namespace, exactly one metric name, and between zero and ten dimensions. Metrics and the statistics derived from them are the basis of Amazon CloudWatch.
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The primary identifier of a metric, used in combination with a namespace and optional dimensions.
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A type of EC2 instance that is more economical to use if you have occasional bursts of high CPU activity.
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The act of transferring a user’s infrastructure to AWS so that they can take advantage of many features offered such as scalable capacity, computing and storage.
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A primary DB instance that has a synchronous standby replica in a different Availability Zone. The primary DB instance is synchronously replicated across Availability Zones to the standby replica.
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A feature that allows you to upload a single object as a set of parts.
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A Cascading application that provides a simple command-line interface for managing large datasets.
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