2. I am... Brian Kaney from Vermonster . We are a 3 person shop in the Back Bay. We've been around for over 8 years and mostly do ruby, perl and python stuff. I do not work for Amazon. I don't know every Amazon offering – maybe you can help ?
3. Warning! There are lots of acronyms and abbreviations. I'll be bouncing from CLI, Web management console(s) and ruby code (and slides) This has been (somewhat) rehearsed but things happen... but at least you didn't have to pay and there's beer afterward.
156. MapReduce: EMR Proposal I have another completely random idea: Let's process a data.gov feed of earthquake data to see the most seismically volatile regions using Elastic Map Reduce !