Additional Resources
For additional information, see these resources:
Official Documentation
<u>Amazon EMR webpage</u> — Product overview, pricing, and getting started
<u>Amazon EMR Management Guide</u> — Cluster planning, configuration, security, and operations
<u>Amazon EMR Release Guide</u> — Release notes, application versions, and changelogs
<u>Amazon EMR Serverless User Guide</u> — Serverless deployment option documentation
<u>Amazon EMR on EKS Development Guide</u> — Container-based deployment option
<u>Getting Started with Amazon EMR</u> — First cluster walkthrough
<u>AWS Prescriptive Guidance — EMR Patterns</u> — Hardware selection, scaling, and configuration best practices
Best Practices and Guides
<u>EMR Best Practices Guide (GitHub)</u> — Community-maintained best practices for cost, performance, security, reliability, and observability
<u>EMR on EKS Best Practices Guide (GitHub)</u> — Container-based EMR deployment patterns
<u>AWS Well-Architected Framework — Analytics Lens</u> — Architecture review for analytics workloads
<u>Apache Spark Upgrade Agent</u> — Automated Spark version upgrades for EMR migrations
Blog Posts
<u>Introducing enhancements to Amazon EMR Managed Scaling</u> — Latest scaling improvements (2026)
<u>Run Apache Spark workloads with better price-performance using Graviton on Amazon EMR</u> — Graviton performance benchmarks
<u>How FINRA established real-time operational observability for Amazon EMR</u> — Production observability patterns
<u>Easily manage table metadata for Trino and Spark on Amazon EMR using the AWS Glue Data Catalog</u> — Data Catalog integration
<u>Migrate Apache Iceberg tables to Amazon S3 Tables</u> — S3 Tables migration patterns
<u>Orchestrate multiple ETL jobs using AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda</u> — Workflow orchestration patterns
<u>AWS Big Data Blog</u> — All EMR and analytics blog posts
Workshops and Hands-On Labs
<u>EMR Immersion Day Workshop</u> — Comprehensive hands-on EMR workshop
<u>Observability for EMR Clusters Workshop</u> — Monitoring and observability lab
<u>AWS Well-Architected Labs</u> — Self-service architecture review exercises
Analyst Reports
<u>The Economic Benefits of Migrating Apache Spark and Hadoop to Amazon EMR (IDC)</u> — 56% cost savings, 3.5× performance improvement, 626% 5-year ROI
Community and Support
<u>AWS re:Post — EMR</u> — Community Q&A with AWS engineers
<u>Amazon EMR on YouTube</u> — Video tutorials and re:Invent sessions
<u>AWS re:Invent session catalog</u> — Latest conference sessions on EMR and analytics
<u>Amazon EMR Partners</u> — Validated migration partners by geography