This section explains configuration options and instructions for planning, configuring, and launching clusters using Amazon EMR. Before you launch a cluster, you make choices about your system based on the data that you're processing and your requirements for cost, speed, capacity, availability, security, and manageability. Your choices include:
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What region to run a cluster in, where and how to store data, and how to output results. See Configure Amazon EMR cluster location and data storage.
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Whether you are running Amazon EMR clusters on Outposts or Local Zones. See EMR clusters on AWS Outposts or EMR clusters on AWS Local Zones.
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Whether a cluster is long-running or transient, and what software it runs. See Configuring an Amazon EMR cluster to continue or terminate after step execution and Configure applications when you launch your Amazon EMR cluster.
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Whether a cluster has a single primary node or three primary nodes. See Plan and configure primary nodes in your Amazon EMR cluster.
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The hardware and networking options that optimize cost, performance, and availability for your application. See Configure Amazon EMR cluster hardware and networking.
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How to set up clusters so you can manage them more easily, and monitor activity, performance, and health. See Configure Amazon EMR cluster logging and debugging and Tag and categorize Amazon EMR cluster resources.
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How to authenticate and authorize access to cluster resources, and how to encrypt data. See Security in Amazon EMR.
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How to integrate with other software and services. See Drivers and third-party application integration on Amazon EMR.
