Category: Amazon EMR

Today we’re happy to announce Amazon EMR Serverless, a new option in Amazon EMR that makes it easy and cost-effective for data engineers and analysts to run petabyte-scale data analytics in the cloud. With EMR Serverless, you can run applications built using open-source frameworks such as Apache Spark, Hive, and Presto, without having to configure, […]

Ensuring data reliability is one of the key objectives of maintaining data integrity and is crucial for building data trust across an organization. Data reliability means that the data is complete and accurate. It’s the catalyst for delivering trusted data analytics and insights. Incomplete or inaccurate data leads business leaders and data analysts to make […]

The AWS Glue Data Catalog provides partition indexes to accelerate queries on highly partitioned tables. In the post Improve query performance using AWS Glue partition indexes, we demonstrated how partition indexes reduce the time it takes to fetch partition information during the planning phase of queries run on Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift Spectrum, and AWS […]

Nearly all businesses today require some form of data analytics processing, from auditing user access to generating sales reports. For all your analytics needs, the Data Analytics Lens for AWS Well-Architected Framework provides prescriptive guidance to help you assess your workloads and identify best practices aligned to the AWS Well-Architected Pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, […]

Many organizations have data sitting in various data sources in a variety of formats. Even though data is a critical component of decision-making, for many organizations this data is spread across multiple public clouds. Organizations are looking for tools that make it easy and cost-effective to copy large datasets across cloud vendors. With Amazon EMR […]

Many enterprises are migrating their on-premises data stores to the AWS Cloud. During data migration, a key requirement is to validate all the data that has been moved from on premises to the cloud. This data validation is a critical step and if not done correctly, may result in the failure of the entire project. […]

This post is co-written with Manoj Gundawar from Viasat. Viasat is a satellite internet service provider based in Carlsbad, CA, with operations across the United States and worldwide. Viasat’s ambition is to be the first truly global, scalable, broadband service provider with a mission to deliver connections that can change the world. Viasat operates across […]

With Amazon EMR 5.32, Amazon EMR introduced Apache Ranger 2.0 support, which allows you to enable authorization and audit capabilities for Apache Spark, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Apache Hive. It also enabled authorization audits to be logged in Amazon CloudWatch. However, although you could control Apache Spark writes to Amazon S3 with […]

This post presents a reference architecture and optimization strategies for building serverless data analytics solutions on AWS using Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. In addition, this post shows the design approach that the engineering team at NortonLifeLock took to build out an operational analytics platform that processes usage data for their VPN services, consuming petabytes of […]

Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS provides a deployment option for Amazon EMR that allows you to run analytics workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This is an attractive option because it allows you to run applications on a common pool of resources without having to provision infrastructure. In addition, you can use Amazon […]