Category: Amazon EMR

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 […]

Apache Spark and Hadoop are popular frameworks to process data for analytics, often at a fraction of the cost of legacy approaches, yet at scale they may still become expensive propositions. This blog post discusses ways to reduce your total costs of ownership, while also improving staff productivity at the same time. This can be […]

This post walks you through some of the principles of Amazon EMR security. It also describes features that you can use in Amazon EMR to help you meet the security and compliance objectives for your business. We cover some common security best practices that we see used. We also show some sample configurations to get you started.

In this blog post, we’ll go through the steps needed to build an ETL pipeline that consumes from one source in one VPC and outputs it to another source in a different VPC. We’ll set up in multiple VPCs to reproduce a situation where your database instances are in multiple VPCs for isolation related to security, audit, or other purposes.

In a managed Apache Hadoop environment—like an Amazon EMR cluster—when the storage capacity on your cluster fills up, there is no convenient solution to deal with it. This situation occurs because you set up Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes and configure mount points when the cluster is launched, so it’s difficult to modify […]

This whitepaper walks you through the stages of a migration. It also helps you determine when to choose Apache HBase on Amazon S3 on Amazon EMR, plan for platform security, tune Apache HBase and EMRFS to support your application SLA, identify options to migrate and restore your data, and manage your cluster in production.

In this blog post, we discuss how to build a real-time IoT stream processing, visualization, and alerting pipeline using various AWS services. We took advantage of the Complex Event Processing feature provided by Apache Flink to detect patterns within a network from the incoming events.

In this post, I walk you through a list of steps to configure an Amazon EC2 instance as an Amazon EMR edge node with RStudio Server configured for remote workloads.

This blog post shows how our customers can benefit by using the Apache Sqoop tool. This tool is designed to transfer and import data from a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) into AWS – EMR Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), transform the data in Hadoop, and then export the data into a Data Warehouse (e.g. in Hive or Amazon Redshift).

In this post, we explore orchestrating a Spark data pipeline on Amazon EMR using Apache Livy and Apache Airflow, we create a simple Airflow DAG to demonstrate how to run spark jobs concurrently, and we see how Livy helps to hide the complexity to submit spark jobs via REST by using optimal EMR resources.