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Amazon EMR on EKS gets up to 19% performance boost running on AWS Graviton3 Processors vs. Graviton2
Amazon EMR on EKS is a deployment option that enables you to run Spark workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) easily. It allows you to innovate faster with the latest Apache Spark on Kubernetes architecture while benefiting from the performance-optimized Spark runtime powered by Amazon EMR. This deployment option elects Amazon EKS as […]
How NerdWallet uses AWS and Apache Hudi to build a serverless, real-time analytics platform
This is a guest post by Kevin Chun, Staff Software Engineer in Core Engineering at NerdWallet. NerdWallet’s mission is to provide clarity for all of life’s financial decisions. This covers a diverse set of topics: from choosing the right credit card, to managing your spending, to finding the best personal loan, to refinancing your mortgage. […]
Design patterns to manage Amazon EMR on EKS workloads for Apache Spark
Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS enables you to submit Apache Spark jobs on demand on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) without provisioning clusters. With EMR on EKS, you can consolidate analytical workloads with your other Kubernetes-based applications on the same Amazon EKS cluster to improve resource utilization and simplify infrastructure management. Kubernetes uses namespaces to provide isolation between […]
Stream Amazon EMR on EKS logs to third-party providers like Splunk, Amazon OpenSearch Service, or other log aggregators
Spark jobs running on Amazon EMR on EKS generate logs that are very useful in identifying issues with Spark processes and also as a way to see Spark outputs. You can access these logs from a variety of sources. On the Amazon EMR virtual cluster console, you can access logs from the Spark History UI. […]
Create cross-account, custom Amazon Managed Grafana dashboards for Amazon Redshift
Amazon Managed Grafana recently announced a new data source plugin for Amazon Redshift, enabling you to query, visualize, and alert on your Amazon Redshift data from Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces. With the new Amazon Redshift data source, you can now create dashboards and alerts in your Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces to analyze your structured and […]
Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS provides up to 61% lower costs and up to 68% performance improvement for Spark workloads
Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is a deployment option offered by Amazon EMR that enables you to run Apache Spark applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in a cost-effective manner. It uses the EMR runtime for Apache Spark to increase performance so that your jobs run faster and cost less. In our benchmark […]
Integrate Amazon Redshift native IdP federation with Microsoft Azure AD using a SQL client
March 2026: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Amazon Redshift accelerates your time to insights with fast, easy, and secure cloud data warehousing at scale. Tens of thousands of customers rely on Amazon Redshift to analyze exabytes of data and run complex analytical queries. The new Amazon Redshift native identity provider authentication simplifies […]
Integrate Amazon Redshift native IdP federation with Microsoft Azure AD and Power BI
March 2026: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Amazon Redshift accelerates your time to insights with fast, easy, and secure cloud data warehousing at scale. Tens of thousands of customers rely on Amazon Redshift to analyze exabytes of data and run complex analytical queries. As enterprise customers look to build their data warehouse […]
Introducing Protocol buffers (protobuf) schema support in AWS Glue Schema Registry
September 2025: This post was reviewed for accuracy. AWS Glue Schema Registry now supports Protocol buffers (protobuf) schemas in addition to JSON and Avro schemas. This allows application teams to use protobuf schemas to govern the evolution of streaming data and centrally control data quality from data streams to data lake. AWS Glue Schema Registry […]
Configure Amazon EMR Studio and Amazon EKS to run notebooks with Amazon EMR on EKS
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 […]









