Amazon Elastic MapReduce Protector

Amazon EMR Protector

The Big Data Protector on Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) is a cloud-based protector that allows users to process data efficiently. The EMR cluster is a collection of Amazon EC2 instances that collaborate to process data using popular Big Data frameworks, such as, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache HBase, and others.

The Big Data Protector on EMR utilizes the following components to process and protect data:

  • HBase
  • Pig
  • MapReduce
  • Hive
  • Spark
  • SparkSQL

Understanding the architecture

The architecture for the protector.

Preparing the environment

Completing the requirements for installing the protector.

Installing the protector

Steps for installing the protector.

Configuring the protector

Updating the Configuration Parameters

Working with Cluster Utilities

Perform operations on the cluster using the utility scripts

Uninstalling the protector

Steps to remove the protector from the system.


Last modified : January 13, 2026