Author: Sai Sriparasa

Organizations need to secure infrastructure when enabling access to engineers to build applications. Opening SSH inbound ports on instances to enable engineer access introduces the risk of a malicious entity running unauthorized commands. Using a Bastion host or jump server is a common approach used to allow engineer access to Amazon EMR cluster instances by […]

As organizations move their workloads to the cloud, audit logs provide a wealth of information on the operations, governance, and security of assets and resources. As the complexity of the workloads increases, so does the volume of audit logs being generated. It becomes increasingly difficult for organizations to analyze and understand what is happening in […]

In the last few years, there has been a rapid rise in enterprises adopting the Apache Hadoop ecosystem for critical workloads that process sensitive or highly confidential data. Due to the highly critical nature of the workloads, the enterprises implement certain organization/industry wide policies and certain regulatory or compliance policies. Such policy requirements are designed […]

In this post, I will show you how to transfer data using Apache Sqoop, which is a tool designed to transfer data between Hadoop and relational databases. Support for Apache Sqoop is available in Amazon EMR releases 4.4.0 and later.