AWS Big Data Blog
Use Kerberos Authentication to Integrate Amazon EMR with Microsoft Active Directory
This post walks you through the process of using AWS CloudFormation to set up a cross-realm trust and extend authentication from an Active Directory network into an Amazon EMR cluster with Kerberos enabled. By establishing a cross-realm trust, Active Directory users can use their Active Directory credentials to access an Amazon EMR cluster and run jobs as themselves.
Create Custom AMIs and Push Updates to a Running Amazon EMR Cluster Using Amazon EC2 Systems Manager
In this post, I show how Systems Manager Automation can be used to automate the creation and patching of custom Amazon Linux AMIs for EMR. I also show how you can use Run Command to send commands to all nodes of a running EMR cluster.
Tips for Migrating to Apache HBase on Amazon S3 from HDFS
Starting with Amazon EMR 5.2.0, you have the option to run Apache HBase on Amazon S3. Running HBase on S3 gives you several added benefits, including lower costs, data durability, and easier scalability. HBase provides several options that you can use to migrate and back up HBase tables. The steps to migrate to HBase on […]
Using Python 3.4 on EMR Spark Applications
Bruno Faria is a Big Data Support Engineer for Amazon Web Services Many data scientists choose Python when developing on Spark. With last month’s Amazon EMR release 4.6, we’ve made it even easier to use Python: Python 3.4 is installed on your EMR cluster by default. You’ll still find Python 2.6 and 2.7 on your […]


