Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds EMR on EKS support with SSO capabilities

This article announces EMR on EKS support in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, enabling large-scale distributed Apache Spark processing with enterprise security features.

• EMR on EKS now available as compute resource for interactive Spark sessions in SageMaker Unified Studio
• Supports automatic scaling, cost optimization, and containerized workload isolation
• Enables seamless transition between interactive analysis and production data processing
• AWS Identity Center integration provides single sign-on and corporate identity support
• Data practitioners access Glue Data Catalog using corporate credentials from JupyterLab
• Administrators maintain fine-grained access controls and audit trails
• Available in all existing SageMaker Unified Studio regions

This release simplifies enterprise data workflows by combining interactive analytics with production-scale processing while maintaining security governance and compliance requirements.