This article provides guidance for Financial Services Industry (FSI) customers on approving Amazon EMR, a managed cluster platform for running big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop and Spark.

• Amazon EMR simplifies processing and analyzing vast amounts of data for analytics and business intelligence
• Bridgewater Associates uses EMR for financial simulations, real-time data analysis, and data intake workflows
• Amazon EMR complies with SOC, PCI, ISO, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and 20+ other compliance standards
• Data encryption available for transit and at-rest using SSL/TLS, AWS KMS, or custom providers
• EMRFS data in S3 supports server-side and client-side encryption options
• Local disk encryption uses HDFS encryption, LUKS, and EBS encryption mechanisms
• VPC endpoints enable private connectivity without internet exposure
• CloudTrail integration provides audit logging of API calls and user activity
• Kerberos authentication and EC2 key pairs control operational access to clusters

Amazon EMR provides FSI customers with compliance-ready, secure big data processing capabilities with comprehensive encryption, isolation, and audit controls.