Posted On: Sep 3, 2021

Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug data engineering and data science applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. 

Today, we are excited to announce that EMR Studio is now Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible, and is Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) certified. You can now use EMR Studio to run sensitive healthcare workloads regulated by HIPAA and HITRUST.

HIPAA eligibility and HITRUST certification applies to all AWS Regions where Amazon EMR Studio is available. EMR Studio is available in US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, London, and Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) regions.

See the Architecting for HIPAA Security and Compliance on Amazon Web Services Whitepaper for information and best practices about how to configure AWS HIPAA Eligible Services to store, process, and transmit protected health information (PHI). To get started with EMR Studio, see our Amazon EMR Studio documentation.