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Amazon EMR in Amazon Web Services in China - Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China
Region availabilityHow Amazon EMR differsDocumentation
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Amazon EMR in Amazon Web Services in China

Amazon EMR helps you analyze and process vast amounts of data by distributing the computational work across a cluster of virtual servers running in the Amazon Cloud. The cluster is managed using an open-source framework called Hadoop. Amazon EMR lets you focus on crunching or analyzing your data without having to worry about time-consuming setup, management, and tuning of Hadoop clusters or the compute capacity they rely on.

Region availability

Amazon EMR is available in the following regions in China:

  • Beijing Region

  • Ningxia Region

How Amazon EMR differs

The following differences apply to Amazon EMR:

  • Automatic Amazon Linux updates, as discussed in the Amazon EMR Management Guide, are not enabled in the Beijing and Ningxia Regions.

  • Amazon EMR does not support AMI version 2.4.11 and earlier in the Beijing and Ningxia regions. The China (Ningxia) region only supports Amazon EMR version 4.9.1 and later.

  • YARN Application history is not available on the cluster details page.

  • The old Amazon EMR management console is the default console for the Beijing and Ningxia Regions.

  • The following table indicates which instance are available to be used with Amazon EMR in the Beijing and Ningxia regions. Yes appears for regions where the instance type is available.

    Instance Type China (Beijing) China (Ningxia)

    c3.2xlarge

    Yes

    No

    c3.4xlarge

    Yes

    No

    c3.8xlarge

    Yes

    No

    c3.xlarge

    No

    Yes

    g2.2xlarge

    Yes

    No

    d2.xlarge

    No

    Yes

    d2.2xlarge

    No

    Yes

    d2.4xlarge

    No

    Yes

    d2.8xlarge

    No

    Yes

    i2.2xlarge

    No

    Yes

    i2.4xlarge

    No

    Yes

    i2.8xlarge

    No

    Yes

    i2.xlarge

    No

    Yes

    i3.xlarge

    No

    Yes

    i3.2xlarge

    No

    Yes

    i3.4xlarge

    No

    Yes

    i3.8xlarge

    No

    Yes

    i3.16xlarge

    No

    Yes

    m1.large

    Yes

    No

    m1.medium

    Yes

    No

    m1.small

    Yes

    No

    m1.xlarge

    Yes

    No

    m3.2xlarge

    Yes

    No

    m3.medium

    Yes

    No

    m3.large

    Yes

    No

    m3.xlarge

    Yes

    No

    r3.xlarge

    Yes

    No

    r3.2xlarge

    Yes

    No

    r3.4xlarge

    Yes

    No

    r3.8xlarge

    Yes

    No

    m4.large

    Yes

    Yes

    m4.xlarge

    Yes

    Yes

    m4.2xlarge

    Yes

    Yes

    m4.4xlarge

    Yes

    Yes

    m4.10xlarge

    Yes

    Yes

    m4.16xlarge

    Yes

    Yes

    c4.large

    Yes

    Yes

    c4.xlarge

    Yes

    Yes

    c4.2xlarge

    Yes

    Yes

    c4.4xlarge

    Yes

    Yes

    c4.8xlarge

    Yes

    Yes

    r4.xlarge

    Yes

    Yes

    r4.2xlarge

    Yes

    Yes

    r4.4xlarge

    Yes

    Yes

    r4.8xlarge

    Yes

    Yes

    r4.16xlarge

    Yes

    Yes

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