
Amazon EMR Serverless now enables Spark and Hive jobs to securely retrieve secrets from AWS Secrets Manager, allowing sensitive credentials to be managed separately from application configuration.


<div><p>This article announces that Amazon EMR Serverless now supports retrieving secrets from AWS Secrets Manager for Spark and Hive jobs.</p><ul><li>Retrieve secrets from AWS Secrets Manager in EMR Serverless Spark and Hive jobs</li><li>Decouple sensitive information management from application configuration</li><li>Securely specify secret references in job configurations and classifications</li><li>Secret references replaced by actual values at runtime</li><li>Useful for specifying external Hive metastore database credentials</li><li>Available for all EMR release versions in all supported regions</li></ul><p>This feature improves security and operational efficiency by enabling secure credential management without hardcoding sensitive information in application configurations.</p></div>


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