PlacementGroupConfig - Amazon EMR
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PlacementGroupConfig

Placement group configuration for an Amazon EMR cluster. The configuration specifies the placement strategy that can be applied to instance roles during cluster creation.

To use this configuration, consider attaching managed policy AmazonElasticMapReducePlacementGroupPolicy to the Amazon EMR role.

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InstanceRole

Role of the instance in the cluster.

Starting with Amazon EMR release 5.23.0, the only supported instance role is MASTER.

Type: String

Valid Values: MASTER | CORE | TASK

Required: Yes

PlacementStrategy

Amazon EC2 Placement Group strategy associated with instance role.

Starting with Amazon EMR release 5.23.0, the only supported placement strategy is SPREAD for the MASTER instance role.

Type: String

Valid Values: SPREAD | PARTITION | CLUSTER | NONE

Required: No

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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: