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Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan)

Regional Expansion



This article announces the expansion of Amazon EMR on EKS to two new AWS regions: Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan).

  • Amazon EMR on EKS now available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) regions
  • Run open-source big data frameworks on Amazon EKS clusters
  • Execute Spark applications alongside other apps on same EKS cluster
  • Improves resource utilization and simplifies infrastructure management
  • Access to performance-optimized Spark runtime and EMR Studio
  • Persistent Spark UI for debugging and development
  • Support for multiple Apache Spark versions on single cluster

Amazon EMR on EKS expansion enables customers in new regions to leverage containerized big data processing with improved resource efficiency and simplified management.



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