Category: Amazon EMR

This post provides a detailed walkthrough of two new encryption options to help you secure your EMR cluster that handles sensitive data. The first option is native EBS encryption to encrypt volumes attached to EMR clusters. The second option is an Amazon S3 encryption that allows you to use different encryption modes and customer master keys (CMKs) for individual S3 buckets with Amazon EMR.

In Part 1 of this post series, you learned how to use Apache Airflow, Genie, and Amazon EMR to manage big data workflows. This post guides you through deploying the AWS CloudFormation templates, configuring Genie, and running an example workflow authored in Apache Airflow.

This post introduces an architecture that helps centralized platform teams maintain a big data platform to service thousands of concurrent ETL workflows, and simplifies the operational tasks required to accomplish that.

This post discusses installing notebook-scoped libraries on a running cluster directly via an EMR Notebook. Before this feature, you had to rely on bootstrap actions or use custom AMI to install additional libraries that are not pre-packaged with the EMR AMI when you provision the cluster. This post also discusses how to use the pre-installed Python libraries available locally within EMR Notebooks to analyze and plot your results. This capability is useful in scenarios in which you don’t have access to a PyPI repository but need to analyze and visualize a dataset.

This post discusses a new account level feature called Block Public Access (BPA) configuration that helps administrators enforce a common public access rule across all of their EMR clusters in a region.

Perimeter security helps secure Apache Hadoop cluster resources to users accessing from outside the cluster. It enables a single access point for all REST and HTTP interactions with Apache Hadoop clusters and simplifies client interaction with the cluster. For example, client applications must acquire Kerberos tickets using Kinit or SPNEGO before interacting with services on Kerberos enabled clusters. In this post, we walk through setup of Apache Knox to enable perimeter security for EMR clusters.

This post shows you how to use Docker with the EMR release 6.0.0 Beta. You’ll learn how to launch an EMR release 6.0.0 Beta cluster and run Spark jobs using Docker containers from both Docker Hub and Amazon ECR.

Combining the speed and flexibility of Amazon EMR with the utility and ubiquity of Apache Hive provides you with the best of both worlds. However, getting started with big data projects can feel intimidating. Whether you want to deploy new data on EMR or migrate an existing project, this post provides you with the basics to get started.

April 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy. If you are a developer or data scientist using long-running Amazon EMR clusters, you face fast-changing workloads. These changes often require different application configurations to run optimally on your cluster. With the reconfiguration feature, you can now change configurations on running EMR clusters. Starting with EMR release […]

Amazon EMR release 5.24.0 includes several optimizations in Spark that improve query performance. To evaluate the performance improvements, we used TPC-DS benchmark queries with 3-TB scale and ran them on a 6-node c4.8xlarge EMR cluster with data in Amazon S3. We observed up to 13X better query performance on EMR 5.24 compared to EMR 5.16 when operating with a similar configuration.