Creating a Notebook - Amazon EMR
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Creating a Notebook

Note

EMR Notebooks are available as EMR Studio Workspaces in the console. The Create Workspace button in the console lets you create new notebooks. To access or create Workspaces, EMR Notebooks users need additional IAM role permissions. For more information, see Amazon EMR Notebooks are Amazon EMR Studio Workspaces in the console and Amazon EMR console.

You create an EMR notebook using the old Amazon EMR console. Creating notebooks using the Amazon CLI or the Amazon EMR API is not supported.

To create an EMR notebook

  1. Open the Amazon EMR console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/elasticmapreduce/.

  2. Choose Notebooks, Create notebook.

  3. Enter a Notebook name and an optional Notebook description.

  4. If you have an active cluster to which you want to attach the notebook, leave the default Choose an existing cluster selected, click Choose, select a cluster from the list, and then click Choose cluster. For information about cluster requirements for EMR Notebooks, see Considerations when using EMR Notebooks.

    —or—

    Choose Create a cluster, enter a Cluster name and choose options according to the following guidelines. The cluster is created in the default VPC for the account using On-Demand instances.

    Setting Description

    Cluster name

    The friendly name used to identify the cluster.

    Release

    Cannot be modified. Defaults to the latest Amazon EMR release version (5.36.1).

    Applications

    Cannot be modified. Lists the applications that are installed on the cluster.

    Instance

    Enter the number of instances and select the EC2 Instance type. One instance is used for the primary node. The rest are used for core nodes. The instance type determines the number of notebooks that can attach to the cluster simultaneously. For more information, see Limits for concurrently attached EMR Notebooks.

    EMR role

    Leave the default or choose the link to specify a custom service role for Amazon EMR. For more information, see Service role for Amazon EMR (EMR role).

    EC2 instance profile

    Leave the default or choose the link to specify a custom service role for EC2 instances. For more information, see Service role for cluster EC2 instances (EC2 instance profile).

    EC2 key pair

    Choose an EC2 key pair to be able to connect to cluster instances. For more information, see Connect to the primary node using SSH.

  5. For Security groups, choose Use default security groups. Alternatively, choose Choose security groups and select custom security groups that are available in the VPC of the cluster. You select one for the primary instance and another for the notebook client instance. For more information, see Specifying EC2 security groups for EMR Notebooks.

  6. For Amazon Service Role, leave the default or choose a custom role from the list. The client instance for the notebook uses this role. For more information, see Service role for EMR Notebooks.

  7. For Notebook location choose the location in Amazon S3 where the notebook file is saved, or specify your own location. If the bucket and folder don't exist, Amazon EMR creates it.

    Amazon EMR creates a folder with the Notebook ID as folder name, and saves the notebook to a file named NotebookName.ipynb. For example, if you specify the Amazon S3 location s3://MyBucket/MyNotebooks for a notebook named MyFirstEMRManagedNotebook, the notebook file is saved to s3://MyBucket/MyNotebooks/NotebookID/MyFirstEMRManagedNotebook.ipynb.

    If you specify an encrypted location in Amazon S3, you must set up the Service role for EMR Notebooks as a key user. The default service role is EMR_Notebooks_DefaultRole. If you are using an Amazon KMS key for encryption, see Using key policies in Amazon KMS in the Amazon Key Management Service Developer Guide and the support article for adding key users.

  8. Optionally, if you have added a Git-based repository to Amazon EMR that you want to associate with this notebook, choose Git repository, select Choose repository and then select a repository from the list. For more information, see Associating Git-based repositories with EMR Notebooks.

  9. Optionally, choose Tags, and then add any additional key-value tags for the notebook.

    Important

    A default tag with the Key string set to creatorUserID and the value set to your IAM user ID is applied for access purposes. We recommend that you do not change or remove this tag because it can be used to control access. For more information, see Use cluster and Notebook tags with IAM policies for access control.

  10. Choose Create Notebook.