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Category: Amazon EMR

How CyberSolutions built a scalable data pipeline using Amazon EMR Serverless and the AWS Data Lab

This post is co-written by Constantin Scoarță and Horațiu Măiereanu from CyberSolutions Tech. CyberSolutions is one of the leading ecommerce enablers in Germany. We design, implement, maintain, and optimize award-winning ecommerce platforms end to end. Our solutions are based on best-in-class software like SAP Hybris and Adobe Experience Manager, and complemented by unique services that […]

Amazon EMR on EKS widens the performance gap: Run Apache Spark workloads 5.37 times faster and at 4.3 times lower cost

Amazon EMR on EKS provides a deployment option for Amazon EMR that allows organizations to run open-source big data frameworks on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). With EMR on EKS, Spark applications run on the Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark. This performance-optimized runtime offered by Amazon EMR makes your Spark jobs run fast […]

Push Amazon EMR step logs from Amazon EC2 instances to Amazon CloudWatch logs

Amazon EMR is a big data service offered by AWS to run Apache Spark and other open-source applications on AWS to build scalable data pipelines in a cost-effective manner. Monitoring the logs generated from the jobs deployed on EMR clusters is essential to help detect critical issues in real time and identify root causes quickly. […]

Build event-driven data pipelines using AWS Controllers for Kubernetes and Amazon EMR on EKS

An event-driven architecture is a software design pattern in which decoupled applications can asynchronously publish and subscribe to events via an event broker. By promoting loose coupling between components of a system, an event-driven architecture leads to greater agility and can enable components in the system to scale independently and fail without impacting other services. […]

Build a serverless transactional data lake with Apache Iceberg, Amazon EMR Serverless, and Amazon Athena

Since the deluge of big data over a decade ago, many organizations have learned to build applications to process and analyze petabytes of data. Data lakes have served as a central repository to store structured and unstructured data at any scale and in various formats. However, as data processing at scale solutions grow, organizations need […]

Build incremental data pipelines to load transactional data changes using AWS DMS, Delta 2.0, and Amazon EMR Serverless

Building data lakes from continuously changing transactional data of databases and keeping data lakes up to date is a complex task and can be an operational challenge. A solution to this problem is to use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) for migrating historical and real-time transactional data into the data lake. You can then […]

Use Apache Iceberg in a data lake to support incremental data processing

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for very large analytic datasets, which captures metadata information on the state of datasets as they evolve and change over time. It adds tables to compute engines including Spark, Trino, PrestoDB, Flink, and Hive using a high-performance table format that works just like a SQL table. Iceberg has […]

Reduce Amazon EMR cluster costs by up to 19% with new enhancements in Amazon EMR Managed Scaling

In June 2020, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon EMR Managed Scaling. With EMR Managed Scaling, you specify the minimum and maximum compute limits for your clusters, and Amazon EMR automatically resizes your cluster for optimal performance and resource utilization. EMR Managed Scaling constantly monitors key workload-related metrics and uses an algorithm that optimizes the […]

How SafeGraph built a reliable, efficient, and user-friendly Apache Spark platform with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS

This is a guest post by Nan Zhu, Tech Lead Manager, SafeGraph, and Dave Thibault, Sr. Solutions Architect – AWS SafeGraph is a geospatial data company that curates over 41 million global points of interest (POIs) with detailed attributes, such as brand affiliation, advanced category tagging, and open hours, as well as how people interact […]

Achieve up to 27% better price-performance for Spark workloads with AWS Graviton2 on Amazon EMR Serverless

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple to run applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Hive without configuring, managing, or scaling clusters. At AWS re:Invent 2022, we announced support for running serverless Spark and Hive workloads with AWS Graviton2 (Arm64) on Amazon EMR Serverless. […]