March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
358 pages
8h 12m
English
Content preview from AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition
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Introducing Amazon EMR
As mentioned earlier, Amazon EMR is a managed service that provides big data analytics frameworks, such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark straight out of the box and ready for use. Using Amazon EMR, you can easily perform a variety of use cases such as batch processing, big data analytics, low-latency querying, data streaming, or even use EMR as a large datastore itself!
With Amazon EMR, there is very little underlying infrastructure to manage on your part. You simply have to decide the number of instances you initially want to run your EMR cluster on and start consuming the framework for analytics and processing. Amazon EMR provides you with features that enable you to scale your infrastructure based on your requirements, ...