This document summarizes Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service. Elastic MapReduce allows users to run Hadoop/MapReduce jobs on Amazon Web Services infrastructure. It launches Hadoop clusters across Amazon EC2 instances and stores data in Amazon S3. The document provides step-by-step examples of using Elastic MapReduce to analyze Japanese Wikipedia data stored in S3, including counting article links, analyzing publication dates over time, and calculating PageRank scores for articles. It concludes by discussing potential use cases for analyzing larger datasets like blog posts.