AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty 2021 – Hands-On - Elastic MapReduce (EMR) Architecture and Usage

The video tutorial provides an in-depth look at Amazon EMR, a managed Hadoop framework on AWS. It covers the components of an EMR cluster, including master, core, and task nodes, and explains how to use task nodes and spot instances for cost efficiency. The tutorial also compares transient and long-running clusters, highlighting their use cases. Finally, it discusses how to interact with EMR using the AWS console and command line, offering flexibility in data processing and management.

How can spot instances be beneficial in an EMR cluster?

What is a transient cluster and how does it save costs?

What are the advantages of using reserved instances for long-running clusters?