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Category: Amazon EC2

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. […]

Run fault tolerant and cost-optimized Spark clusters using Amazon EMR on EKS and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Amazon EMR on EKS is a deployment option in Amazon EMR that allows you to run Spark jobs on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances save you up to 90% over On-Demand Instances, and is a great way to cost optimize the Spark workloads running on Amazon […]

Amazon EMR launches support for Amazon EC2 C6i, M6i, I4i, R6i and R6id instances to improve cost performance for Spark workloads by 6–33%

Amazon EMR provides a managed service to easily run analytics applications using open-source frameworks such as Apache Spark, Hive, Presto, Trino, HBase, and Flink. The Amazon EMR runtime for Spark and Presto includes optimizations that provide over two times performance improvements over open-source Apache Spark and Presto, so that your applications run faster and at […]

How ZS created a multi-tenant self-service data orchestration platform using Amazon MWAA

This is post is co-authored by Manish Mehra, Anirudh Vohra, Sidrah Sayyad, and Abhishek I S (from ZS), and Parnab Basak (from AWS). The team at ZS collaborated closely with AWS to build a modern, cloud-native data orchestration platform. ZS is a management consulting and technology firm focused on transforming global healthcare and beyond. We […]

Develop and test AWS Glue version 3.0 and 4.0 jobs locally using a Docker container

Apr 2023: This post was reviewed and updated with enhanced support for Glue 4.0 Streaming jobs. Jan 2023: This post was reviewed and updated with enhanced support for Glue 3.0 Streaming jobs, ARM64, and Glue 4.0. AWS Glue is a fully managed serverless service that allows you to process data coming through different data sources […]

Estimate Amazon EC2 Spot Instance cost savings with AWS Glue DataBrew, AWS Glue, and Amazon QuickSight

AWS provides many ways to optimize your workloads and save on costs. For example, services like AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Trusted Advisor provide cost savings recommendations to help you optimize your AWS environments. However, you may also want to estimate cost savings when comparing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot to On-Demand Instances. […]

How to delete user data in an AWS data lake

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an important aspect of today’s technology world, and processing data in compliance with GDPR is a necessity for those who implement solutions within the AWS public cloud. One article of GDPR is the “right to erasure” or “right to be forgotten” which may require you to implement a solution […]

Power from wind: Open data on AWS

Data that describe processes in a spatial context are everywhere in our day-to-day lives and they dominate big data problems. Map data, for instance, whether describing networks of roads or remote sensing data from satellites, get us where we need to go. Atmospheric data from simulations and sensors underlie our weather forecasts and climate models. […]