Category: Amazon EMR

Jonathan Fritz is a Senior Product Manager for Amazon EMR Customers running Apache Spark, Presto, and the Apache Hadoop ecosystem take advantage of Amazon EMR’s elasticity to save costs by terminating clusters after workflows are complete and resizing clusters with low-cost Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. For instance, customers can create clusters for daily ETL or machine learning […]

Today we are making it even easier to run Flink on AWS as it is now natively supported in Amazon EMR 5.1.0. EMR supports running Flink-on-YARN so you can create either a long-running cluster that accepts multiple jobs or a short-running Flink session in a transient cluster that helps reduce your costs by only charging you for the time that you use.

Peter Schmiedeskamp also contributed to this post. The Sparklyr package by RStudio has made processing big data in R a lot easier. Sparklyr is an R interface to Spark, it allows using Spark as the backend for dplyr – one of the most popular data manipulation packages. Sparklyr also allows user to query data in […]

In this post, I discuss some of the practical challenges faced during the implementation of the data lake for Eliza and the corresponding details of the ways we solved these issues with AWS. The challenges we faced involved the variety of data and a need for a common view of the data.

In this post, I walk you through an architectural approach as well as a sample implementation on how to collect, process, and analyze data for event-driven applications in AWS.

This post demonstrates how to set up Apache Kafka on EC2, use Spark Streaming on EMR to process data coming in to Apache Kafka topics, and query streaming data using Spark SQL on EMR.

Amazon Web Services is excited to announce that the Amazon EMR-DynamoDB Connector is now open-source. The code you see in the GitHub repository is exactly what is available on your EMR cluster, making it easier to build applications with this component.

ustomers running analytics, stream processing, machine learning, and ETL workloads on personally identifiable information, health information, and financial data have strict requirements for encryption of data at-rest and in-transit. The Apache Spark and Hadoop ecosystems lend themselves to these big data use cases, and customers have asked us to provide a quick and easy way to encrypt data at-rest and data in-transit between nodes in each execution framework.

AWS IoT makes it easy to integrate and control your devices from other AWS services for even more powerful IoT applications. In particular, IoT provides tight integration with AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3, Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon Elasticsearch Service.

In this post, I show you how to gain valuable insight into your network by using Amazon EMR and Amazon VPC Flow Logs. The walkthrough implements a pattern often found in network equipment called ‘Top Talkers’, an ordered list of the heaviest network users, but the model can also be used for many other types of network analysis.