Creating an EMR cluster and an EMR notebook

Before getting started with our use case, we need to create an EMR cluster and then create an EMR notebook that points to the EMR cluster we have created. Let's assume this EMR cluster is a long-running cluster that is active to support your development workloads as you plan to do interactive development with EMR notebooks.

Now let's learn how to create the EMR cluster and notebook.

Creating an EMR cluster

As explained in Chapter 5, Setting Up and Configuring EMR Clusters, to create an EMR cluster, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Amazon EMR's Create cluster screen at https://console.aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/home?region=us-east-1#quick-create.
2. Select Go to advanced options and, from the advanced options screen, select the latest stable release. We have selected the emr-6.4.0 release because that was the latest stable release while writing this chapter. From the Applications list, make sure you select...