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Tag: Amazon EMR

Improve Apache Spark write performance on Apache Parquet formats with the EMRFS S3-optimized committer

The EMRFS S3-optimized committer is a new output committer available for use with Apache Spark jobs as of Amazon EMR 5.19.0. This committer improves performance when writing Apache Parquet files to Amazon S3 using the EMR File System (EMRFS). In this post, we run a performance benchmark to compare this new optimized committer with existing committer […]

Metadata classification, lineage, and discovery using Apache Atlas on Amazon EMR

This blog post was last reviewed and updated April, 2022. The code repositories used in this blog have been reviewed and updated to fix the solution 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 […]

Best Practices for Securing Amazon EMR

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.

Dynamically scale up storage on Amazon EMR clusters

This post was last reviewed and updated July, 2022 with a new bootstrap action script and log instructions. 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 […]

Getting started: Training resources for Big Data on AWS

Whether you’ve just signed up for your first AWS account or you’ve been with us for some time, there’s always something new to learn as our services evolve to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers. To help ensure you’re set up for success as you build with AWS, we put together this quick reference guide for Big Data training and resources available here on the AWS site.