AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

Running a job on the cluster

With the connectivity established, you can now execute jobs as one or more steps on your cluster. In this section, we will be demonstrating the working of a step using a simple example which involves the processing of a few Amazon CloudFront logs. The details of the sample data and script can be found at: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ManagementGuide/emr-gs-prepare-data-and-script.html. You can use similar techniques and bases to create and execute your own jobs as well:

1. To get started with a job, from the EMR dashboard select your cluster's name from the Cluster list page. This will bring up the newly created clusters details page. Here, select the Steps tab.

2. Since this is going to be our first step, ...