Hortonworks Data Cloud is a new cloud product from Hortonworks that offers pay-as-you-go pricing for launching and managing Hadoop clusters on AWS. It handles common big data use cases and focuses on ease of use by providing prescriptive cluster types. The product aims to improve enterprise readiness in the cloud by providing scalable storage, security and governance features, and reliability through auto-recovery of unhealthy nodes. It also matches Hadoop with cloud capabilities like scalable storage, customizability, and cost-effective compute.