AWS Big Data Blog
Orchestrate multiple ETL jobs using AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda
In this post, I show you how to use AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda for orchestrating multiple ETL jobs involving a diverse set of technologies in an arbitrarily-complex ETL workflow.
Apache Tez Now Available with Amazon EMR
Amazon EMR has added Apache Tez version 0.8.3 as a supported application in release 4.7.0. Tez is an extensible framework for building batch and interactive data processing applications on top of Hadoop YARN.

