The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) is a tool for large-scale parallel processing of big data and other large data workloads. It’s based on the Apache Hadoop framework and is delivered as a managed cluster using EC2 instances. EMR is used for huge-scale log analysis, indexing, machine learning, financial analysis, simulations, bioinformatics, and many other large-scale applications.
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that utilizes schema-on-read, allowing you to run ad-hoc SQL-like queries on data from a range of sources.
Elastic Transcoder is an AWS service that allows you to convert media files from an input format to one or more output formats. It’s delivered as a service, and you are billed a per-minute charge while using the service.
Simple Notification Service (SNS) A fully managed service that sends messages to subscription endpoints.