Technical requirements
In this chapter, we will showcase the features of AWS Step Functions and MWAA and demonstrate how you can integrate them to trigger EMR jobs. So, before getting started, make sure you have the following requirements to hand.
- An AWS account with access to create Amazon S3, Amazon EMR, AWS Step Functions, and MWAA resources
- An IAM user with access to create IAM roles, which will be used to trigger or execute jobs
Now let's get an overview of these orchestration tools and learn how we can integrate them.