Category: Amazon EMR

For most organizations, working with ever-increasing volumes of data and incorporating new data sources can be a challenge.  Often, AWS customers have messages coming from various connected devices and sensors that must be efficiently ingested and processed before further analysis.  Amazon S3 is a natural landing spot for data of all types.  However, the way […]

In Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you can use cross-region replication (CRR) to copy objects automatically and asynchronously across buckets in different AWS Regions. CRR is a bucket-level configuration, and it can help you meet compliance requirements and minimize latency by keeping copies of your data in different Regions. CRR replicates all objects in […]

Notebooks are increasingly becoming the standard tool for interactively developing big data applications. It’s easy to see why. Their flexible architecture allows you to experiment with data in multiple languages, test code interactively, and visualize large datasets. To help scientists and developers easily access notebook tools, we launched Amazon EMR Notebooks, a managed notebook environment […]

In this blog post, we introduce Deequ, an open source tool developed and used at Amazon. Deequ allows you to calculate data quality metrics on your dataset, define and verify data quality constraints, and be informed about changes in the data distribution. Instead of implementing checks and verification algorithms on your own, you can focus on describing how your data should look.

Many customers use Amazon EMR to run big data workloads, such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive queries, in their development environment. Data analysts and data scientists frequently use these types of clusters, known as analytics EMR clusters. Users often forget to terminate the clusters after their work is done. This leads to idle running […]

In the world of big data, a common use case is performing extract, transform (ET) and data analytics on huge amounts of data from a variety of data sources. Often, you then analyze the data to get insights. One of the most popular cloud-based solutions to process such vast amounts of data is Amazon EMR. […]

In this blog post, we are going to focus on cost-optimizing and efficiently running Spark applications on Amazon EMR by using Spot Instances. We recommend several best practices to increase the fault tolerance of your Spark applications and use Spot Instances. These work without compromising availability or having a large impact on performance or the length of your jobs.

The EMRFS S3-optimized committer is a new output committer available for use with Apache Spark jobs as of Amazon EMR 5.19.0. This committer improves performance when writing Apache Parquet files to Amazon S3 using the EMR File System (EMRFS). In this post, we run a performance benchmark to compare this new optimized committer with existing committer […]

This blog post provides an overview of the issues with how open-source Spark handles node loss and the improvements in Amazon EMR to address the issues.

With the ever-evolving and growing role of data in today’s world, data governance is an essential aspect of effective data management. Many organizations use a data lake as a single repository to store data that is in various formats and belongs to a business entity of the organization. The use of metadata, cataloging, and data […]