Using job templates - Amazon EMR
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Using job templates

A job template stores values that can be shared across StartJobRun API invocations when starting a job run. It supports two use cases:

  • To prevent repetitive recurring StartJobRun API request values.

  • To enforce a rule that certain values must be provided via StartJobRun API requests.

Job templates enable you to define a reusable template for job runs to apply additional customization, for example:

  • Configuring executor and driver compute capacity

  • Setting security and governance properties such as IAM roles

  • Customizing a docker image to use across multiple applications and data pipelines

The following topics provide detailed information on using templates, including how to use them to start a job run and how to change template parameters.

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