AWS Big Data Blog

Abhishek Sinha

Author: Abhishek Sinha

Amazon EMR 2020 year in review

Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon EMR to run big data analytics applications on Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, and Presto at scale. Amazon EMR automates the provisioning and scaling of these frameworks, and delivers high performance at low cost with optimized runtimes and support for a wide range […]

Introducing Amazon EMR Managed Scaling – Automatically Resize Clusters to Lower Cost

AWS is happy to announce the release of Amazon EMR Managed Scaling—a new feature that automatically resizes your cluster for best performance at the lowest possible cost. With EMR Managed Scaling you specify the minimum and maximum compute limits for your clusters and Amazon EMR automatically resizes them for best performance and resource utilization. EMR Managed Scaling continuously samples key metrics associated with the workloads running on clusters. EMR Managed Scaling is supported for Apache Spark, Apache Hive and YARN-based workloads on Amazon EMR versions 5.30.1 and above.

Analyzing Data in S3 using Amazon Athena

April 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data directly from Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to set up or manage and you can start analyzing your data immediately. You don’t even need to […]