Running on Amazon Elastic MapReduce

1. Set up your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account

Follow this tutorial through section titled Getting our AWS Security Credentials.

2. Get the AWS Java SDK

You will need the SDK to compile Thrax. Download the SDK here, and set the environment variable AWS_SDK to the directory you unpacked to. e.g.,

$ wget http://ds60ft5bv5jal.cloudfront.net/aws-java-sdk-1.1.3.zip
$ unzip aws-java-sdk-1.1.3.zip
$ export AWS_SDK=$(pwd)/aws-java-sdk-1.1.3

3. Set up credentials

Create AwsCredentials.properties file and add your AWS secret and access keys:

#Insert your AWS Credentials from http://aws.amazon.com/security-credentials
secretKey=
accessKey=

and place the file anywhere in your classpath.