AWS Big Data Blog
Author: Garima Arora
Run high-availability long-running clusters with Amazon EMR instance fleets
In this post, we demonstrate how to launch a high availability instance fleet cluster using the newly redesigned Amazon EMR console, as well as using an AWS CloudFormation template. We also go over the basic concepts of Hadoop high availability, EMR instance fleets, the benefits and trade-offs of high availability, and best practices for running resilient EMR clusters.