2009 April

AWS for PHP Developers

To offset the length of the article, I'll be brief: my deep dive into Amazon's PHP libraries for AWS is now available. Enjoy!

AWS Elastic MapReduce Supports PHP

It's not blatently obvious, or mentioned in detail, or even shown in any of the examples or introductions to the service.

But it's true: Amazon's new Elastic MapReduce service supports mapper and reducer scripts written in PHP. PHP 5.2.6 is installed in the environment created by the MapReduce job flows.