Amazon EMR provides a hosted Hadoop, Pig, Hive, and Hbase services for developers and businesses to help them build Big Data applications without worrying about the deployment complexity or managing Hadoop clusters with scalable underlying infrastructure. We have learned the benefits of Amazon EMR in Chapter 4, Amazon EMR – Hadoop on Amazon Web Services. In this section, we will look at the different ways of managing an Amazon EMR cluster.
We can access the AWS EMR service using multiple ways as listed:
Web console (AWS management console): This is a web interface to access all Amazon Web Service offerings. It can be used to launch EMR jobs and manage them. The AWS management console is an easy-to-use interface for developers who are not very familiar with using command-line interface (CLI) or programmatic SDK. We saw how to use the AWS management console to launch an EMR cluster in Chapter 6, Executing Hadoop Jobs on an Amazon EMR Cluster.
AWS SDK...