Plan and configure clusters

This section explains configuration options and instructions for planning, configuring, and launching clusters using Amazon EMR. Before you launch a cluster, you make choices about your system based on the data that you're processing and your requirements for cost, speed, capacity, availability, security, and manageability. Your choices include:

• What region to run a cluster in, where and how to store data, and how to output results. See Configure cluster location and data storage.

• Whether you are running Amazon EMR clusters on Outposts or Local Zones. See EMR clusters on AWS Outposts or EMR clusters on AWS Local Zones.

• Whether a cluster is long-running or transient, and what software it runs. See Configuring a cluster to continue or terminate after step execution and Configure cluster software.

• Whether a cluster has a single master node or three master nodes. See Plan and configure master nodes.

• The hardware and networking options that optimize cost, performance, and availability for your application. See Configure cluster hardware and networking.

• How to set up clusters so you can manage them more easily, and monitor activity, performance, and health. See Configure cluster logging and debugging and Tag clusters.

• How to authenticate and authorize access to cluster resources, and how to encrypt data. See Security in Amazon EMR.

• How to integrate with other software and services. See Drivers and third-party application integration.