Posted On: Mar 22, 2024

Amazon EMR Serverless is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) Regions. You can now use EMR Serverless to run your Apache Spark and Hive workloads that are subject to FedRAMP Moderate compliance.

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a US government-wide program that delivers a standard approach to the security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it simple for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. 

In addition to achieving FedRAMP Moderate compliance, Amazon EMR Serverless is also HIPAA eligible, HITRUST, SOC, and PCI DSS compliant. To learn more about FedRAMP, visit the AWS services compliance page and AWS compliance resources page. To learn more about Amazon EMR Serverless, visit the User Guide.