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Category: Amazon EMR

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Design patterns to manage Amazon EMR on EKS workloads for Apache Spark

Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS enables you to submit Apache Spark jobs on demand on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) without provisioning clusters. With EMR on EKS, you can consolidate analytical workloads with your other Kubernetes-based applications on the same Amazon EKS cluster to improve resource utilization and simplify infrastructure management. Kubernetes uses namespaces to provide isolation between […]

Stream Amazon EMR on EKS logs to third-party providers like Splunk, Amazon OpenSearch Service, or other log aggregators

Spark jobs running on Amazon EMR on EKS generate logs that are very useful in identifying issues with Spark processes and also as a way to see Spark outputs. You can access these logs from a variety of sources. On the Amazon EMR virtual cluster console, you can access logs from the Spark History UI. […]

Enable federated governance using Trino and Apache Ranger on Amazon EMR

Managing data through a central data platform simplifies staffing and training challenges and reduces the costs. However, it can create scaling, ownership, and accountability challenges, because central teams may not understand the specific needs of a data domain, whether it’s because of data types and storage, security, data catalog requirements, or specific technologies needed for […]

Disaster recovery considerations with Amazon EMR on Amazon EC2 for Spark workloads

Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning (ML) applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto. Amazon EMR launches all nodes for a given cluster in the same Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Availability Zone […]

Build a high-performance, ACID compliant, evolving data lake using Apache Iceberg on Amazon EMR

Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning (ML) applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto. Apache Iceberg is an open table format for huge analytic datasets. Table formats typically indicate the format and location of […]

Build an Apache Iceberg data lake using Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and AWS Glue

March 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Most businesses store their critical data in a data lake, where you can bring data from various sources to a centralized storage. The data is processed by specialized big data compute engines, such as Amazon Athena for interactive queries, Amazon EMR for Apache Spark applications, […]

Deep dive into Amazon EMR Kerberos authentication integrated with Microsoft Active Directory

Many of our customers that use Amazon EMR as their big data platform need to integrate with their existing Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for user authentication. This integration requires the Kerberos daemon of Amazon EMR to establish a trusted connection with an AD domain, which involves a lot of moving pieces and can be difficult […]

How Paytm modernized their data pipeline using Amazon EMR

This post was co-written by Rajat Bhardwaj, Senior Technical Account Manager at AWS and Kunal Upadhyay, General Manager at Paytm. Paytm is India’s leading payment platform, pioneering the digital payment era in India with 130 million active users. Paytm operates multiple lines of business, including banking, digital payments, bill recharges, e-wallet, stocks, insurance, lending and […]

Access Apache Livy using a Network Load Balancer on a Kerberos-enabled Amazon EMR cluster

Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning (ML) applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto. Amazon EMR supports Kerberos for authentication; you can enable Kerberos on Amazon EMR and put the cluster in a private […]

Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS provides up to 61% lower costs and up to 68% performance improvement for Spark workloads

Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is a deployment option offered by Amazon EMR that enables you to run Apache Spark applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in a cost-effective manner. It uses the EMR runtime for Apache Spark to increase performance so that your jobs run faster and cost less. In our benchmark […]