Summary

Well that brings us to the end of yet another amazing chapter. Let's quickly summarize what we have learnt so far!

To start off, we began by learning a bit about the various services offered by AWS for big data analytics followed by a quick getting started with Amazon EMR guide. We learnt about a few of Amazon EMR's concepts as well as launched our very first EMR cluster, as well. We also ran our first simple job on the EMR cluster and learnt how to monitor its performance using the likes of Amazon CloudWatch.

Towards the end of the chapter, we got to know Amazon Redshift along with its core concepts and workings. We also created our first Redshift cluster, connected to it using an open source client and ran a couple of SQL queries, ...

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