Amazon EMR Protector

The Big Data Protector UDFs and APIs provide a robust framework for securing sensitive data within EMR environments on AWS. These components are part of the Protegrity Big Data Protector architecture, enabling developers and data engineers to integrate advanced data protection directly into big data workflows. The User Defined Functions (UDFs) allow seamless encryption, tokenization, and de-tokenization of sensitive fields during Hive and Spark. By embedding Protegrity UDFs into SQL queries, organizations can enforce column-level security without altering application logic. This ensures compliance while maintaining analytical performance.

To perform protect and unprotect operations using the User Defined Functions, refer to User Defined Functions and APIs.