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Introducing Amazon EMR on EKS with Apache Flink: A scalable, reliable, and efficient data processing platform

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This article introduces Amazon EMR on EKS with Apache Flink, which allows running Flink applications on Amazon EKS using the EMR runtime, combining the benefits of both services.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Benefits of EMR on EKS for data workloads
  • Advantages of EMR on EKS with Apache Flink, including faster restart, logging/monitoring, cost optimization with Spot Instances, Glue Data Catalog integration, Amazon S3 integration, and RBAC with IRSA
  • Key differentiations of EMR on EKS with Flink, such as task local recovery, fine-grained recovery, monitoring capabilities, and spot instance interruption handling
  • Getting started with deploying and running Flink jobs on EMR on EKS
  • Conclusion highlighting the benefits of running Flink workloads on the managed, scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized EMR on EKS platform


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