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Atul Payapilly

Author: Atul Payapilly

Amazon EMR 7.5 runtime for Apache Spark and Iceberg can run Spark workloads 3.6 times faster than Spark 3.5.3 and Iceberg 1.6.1

The Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark offers a high-performance runtime environment while maintaining 100% API compatibility with open source Apache Spark and Apache Iceberg table format. In this post, we demonstrate the performance benefits of using the Amazon EMR 7.5 runtime for Spark and Iceberg compared to open source Spark 3.5.3 with Iceberg 1.6.1 tables on the TPC-DS 3TB benchmark v2.13.