AWS Compute

Where the work actually runs: instances, clusters, containers, and the scaling behaviour that decides what they cost.

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• AWS EMR (Elastic MapReduce) — AWS EMR (Elastic MapReduce) is a managed big data platform that runs distributed processing frameworks — Apache Spark, Hadoop, HBase, Presto/Trino, Flink, and Hive — on dynamically…
• Amazon EC2 — Amazon EC2 provides resizable virtual machines (instances) in the AWS cloud. It remains the foundational AWS compute primitive — even managed services like RDS, EMR, and SageMaker run on…
• Auto Scaling EC2 EMR — Auto Scaling for Amazon EC2 and EMR (Elastic MapReduce) is a service that automatically adjusts the number of EC2 instances or EMR cluster nodes in your application or data processing…
• ECS, EKS, and Fargate — AWS offers two container orchestrators (ECS and EKS) and two compute modes (EC2 launch type and Fargate). Picking the right combination depends on your team's familiarity with Kubernetes…

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