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Peter Gvozdjak

Author: Peter Gvozdjak

Amazon EMR now provides up to 30% lower cost and up to 15% improved performance for Spark workloads on Graviton2-based instances

Amazon EMR now supports M6g, C6g and R6g instances with Amazon EMR versions 6.1.0, 5.31.0 and later. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors that are custom designed by AWS using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores to deliver the best price performance for cloud workloads running in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). On Graviton2 […]