Hi, The EC2 scripts will boot Cloudera's distribution for Hadoop. Currently they boot our distribution of 0.18.3, but 0.20 support should be ready pretty soon now. Here's a list of what patches are in our newest 0.18.3 distribution:
http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/testing/hadoop-0.18.3+70.CHANGES.txt -Todd On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:30 AM, tim robertson <timrobertson...@gmail.com>wrote: > I can recommend the cloudera EC2 images. I am not sure what version > they are built on right now, but I think they pick stable ones and > apply critical patches I believe. > http://www.cloudera.com/hadoop-ec2 > > Cheers, > Tim > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:08 AM, John Clarke<clarke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am planning on running my MapReduce app on Amazon's EC2. I had a look > at > > the public Hadoop images in the hadoop-images bucket and there is no > image > > for the stable 0.18.3 release. The most recent Hadoop versions I see are > > 0.18.1 and 0.19.0. Which of those would be better to use? Or should I try > > and create my own AMI from one of the existing ones with the stable > 0.18.3? > > > > Who owns the AMIs in hadoop-images? If they are owned by the Hadoop > project > > I'm surprised there isn't one for the stable 0.18.3 or a later 0.19.x. > > > > Thanks, > > John > > >