Simplify financial reporting with cost allocation—now in preview

By Dustin Ward

Managing cloud costs can be challenging; especially if your organization needs to break down costs for internal chargeback. You might have separate business units, or you might need to facilitate external billing for distinct customer solutions. This becomes even more difficult when you employ shared services to reduce costs, since there may not be a…

Amazon EMR supports Apache Hive ACID transactions

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon EMR supports Apache Hive ACID transactions Apache Hive is an open-source data warehouse package that runs on top of an Apache Hadoop cluster. You can use Hive for batch processing and large-scale data analysis. Hive uses Hive Query Language (HiveQL), which is similar to SQL. ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability)…