Section 2: Configuration, Scaling, Data Security, and Governance

This part of the book will go deep into the advanced configuration of EMR applications, hardware, networking, security, troubleshooting, logging, and the different SDKs/API required to launch and manage EMR clusters. This section will also provide the details of different scaling options and explain the security aspects of EMR such as data protection, authentication, and granular permission management with AWS Lake Formation and Apache Ranger.

This section comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 5, Setting Up and Configuring EMR Clusters
• Chapter 6, Monitoring, Scaling, and High Availability
• Chapter 7, Understanding Security in Amazon EMR
• Chapter 8, Understanding Data Governance in Amazon EMR