How the GoDaddy data platform achieved over 60% cost reduction and 50% performance boost by adopting Amazon EMR Serverless
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This article discusses how GoDaddy's data platform achieved significant cost savings and performance improvements by adopting Amazon EMR Serverless. It outlines their methodology, benchmarking results, and adoption strategy.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Background on GoDaddy's data platform migration to AWS
- Seven layers of improvement opportunities they identified
- Benchmarking methodology and results comparing EMR Serverless to EMR on EC2
- Evaluation of AWS Graviton2 performance on EMR Serverless
- Phased adoption strategy using deployment rings
- Production adoption results, including 62.5% cost reduction and 50.4% faster workflows
- Insights and recommended best practices for EMR Serverless adoption
- Conclusion highlighting the benefits achieved and potential for further improvements
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