AWS Big Data Blog
Author: Sushant Majithia
Capacity Management and Amazon EMR Managed Scaling improvements for Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters
In 2022, we told you about the new enhancements we made in Amazon EMR Managed Scaling, which helped improve cluster utilization as well as reduced cluster costs. In 2023, we are happy to report that the Amazon EMR team has been hard at work. We worked backward from customer requirements and launched multiple new features to enhance your Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters capacity management and scaling experience. Let’s dive deeper and discuss the new Amazon EMR on EC2 features in detail.
Reduce Amazon EMR cluster costs by up to 19% with new enhancements in Amazon EMR Managed Scaling
In June 2020, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon EMR Managed Scaling. With EMR Managed Scaling, you specify the minimum and maximum compute limits for your clusters, and Amazon EMR automatically resizes your cluster for optimal performance and resource utilization. EMR Managed Scaling constantly monitors key workload-related metrics and uses an algorithm that optimizes the […]