Using EMR bootstrap actions to configure VMs for the Amazon EMR jobs
EMR bootstrap actions provide us a mechanism to configure the EC2 instances before running our MapReduce computations. Examples of bootstrap actions include providing custom configurations for Hadoop, installing any dependent software, distributing a common dataset, and so on. Amazon provides a set of predefined bootstrap actions as well as allowing us to write our own custom bootstrap actions. EMR runs the bootstrap actions in each instance before Hadoop cluster services are started.
In this recipe, we are going to use a stop words list to filter out the common words from our WordCount sample. We download the stop words list to the workers using a custom bootstrap action.
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