AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

Connecting to your EMR cluster

Once you have provisioned the EMR cluster, you should see its state change from Starting to Bootstrapping to finally into a Running state. If you do not have any jobs currently executing, then your cluster may go into a Waiting state as well. Here, you can now start using the EMR cluster for running your various jobs and analysis. But before that, here's a quick introduction of a few ways in which you can connect to your running EMR cluster.

First up, connecting to the master node using a simple SSH. Connecting to the master node via SSH can be used for monitoring the cluster, viewing Hadoop's log flies or for even running an interactive shell for Hive or Pig programming:

1. To do so, log in to your Amazon EMR ...