Benchmark Results

Amazon EMR

Spark

• EMR 6.10: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/amazon-emr-on-eks-widens-the-performance-gap-run-apache-spark-workloads-5-37-times-faster-and-at-4-3-times-lower-cost/
• EMR 6.9: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/run-apache-spark-workloads-3-5-times-faster-with-amazon-emr-6-9/
• EMR 6.5: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/amazon-emr-on-amazon-eks-provides-up-to-61-lower-costs-and-up-to-68-performance-improvement-for-spark-workloads/

Graviton

EMR Graviton 2

• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/achieve-up-to-27-better-price-performance-for-spark-workloads-with-aws-graviton2-on-amazon-emr-serverless/

EMR Graviton 3

• EMR on EKS - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/amazon-emr-on-eks-gets-up-to-19-performance-boost-running-on-aws-graviton3-processors-vs-graviton2/
• EMR on EC2 - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/amazon-emr-launches-support-for-amazon-ec2-c7g-graviton3-instances-to-improve-cost-performance-for-spark-workloads-by-7-13/

Intel

• EMR Intel (C6i, M6i, I4i, R6i, and R6id): https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/amazon-emr-launches-support-for-amazon-ec2-c6i-m6i-i4i-r6i-and-r6id-instances-to-improve-cost-performance-for-spark-workloads-by-6-33/

AMD

• EMR AMD (m6a, r6a): https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/amazon-emr-launches-support-for-amazon-ec2-m6a-r6a-instances-to-improve-cost-performance-for-spark-workloads-by-15-50/

Managed Scaling

• Managed Scaling Improvements: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/reduce-amazon-emr-cluster-costs-by-up-to-19-with-new-enhancements-in-amazon-emr-managed-scaling/

EMR on EKS

• EMR on EKS vs OSS: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/amazon-emr-on-amazon-eks-provides-up-to-61-lower-costs-and-up-to-68-performance-improvement-for-spark-workloads/

Hive

• Hive Rename Feature: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/up-to-15-times-improvement-in-hive-write-performance-with-the-amazon-emr-hive-zero-rename-feature/

Customer Examples

• EMR Serverless: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/godaddy-benchmarking-results-in-up-to-24-better-price-performance-for-their-spark-workloads-with-aws-graviton2-on-amazon-emr-serverless/

Amazon Athena

• Athena V3: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/upgrade-to-athena-engine-version-3-to-increase-query-performance-and-access-more-analytics-features/
• Athena V2: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/run-queries-3x-faster-with-up-to-70-cost-savings-on-the-latest-amazon-athena-engine/
• Athena CBO: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/speed-up-queries-with-cost-based-optimizer-in-amazon-athena/