[FLINK-6447] update aws/emr docs#3828
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@alpinegizmo a few thoughts; +1 to updating this for this release!
| Flink is a supported application on Amazon EMR. Basically all you have to do is choose Flink as an application, along with whatever | ||
| else you need, and configure the instances and roles. [Amazon's documentation](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-flink.html) gives all the details. | ||
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Can this png be deleted from the repo?
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| ### Standard EMR Installation | ||
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| The EMR documentation contains [examples showing how to start an EMR cluster](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticMapReduce/latest/ManagementGuide/emr-gs-launch-sample-cluster.html). You can follow that guide and install any EMR release. You don't need to install *All Applications* part of the EMR release, but can stick to *Core Hadoop*: | ||
| Flink is a supported application on Amazon EMR. Basically all you have to do is choose Flink as an application, along with whatever |
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How about something like "Flink is a supported application on Amazon EMR. Amazon's documentation describes configuring Flink, creating and monitoring a cluster, and working with jobs."?
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| The EMR documentation contains [examples showing how to start an EMR cluster](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticMapReduce/latest/ManagementGuide/emr-gs-launch-sample-cluster.html). You can follow that guide and install any EMR release. You don't need to install the *All Applications* part of the EMR release, but can stick to *Core Hadoop*. | ||
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| When creating your cluster, make sure to setup [IAM roles](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticMapReduce/latest/ManagementGuide/emr-iam-roles.html) allowing you to access your S3 buckets if required. |
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How about something like "When creating a cluster, access to S3 buckets requires configuration of IAM roles."? And prefix with our "note" warning?
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| When creating your cluster, make sure to setup [IAM roles](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticMapReduce/latest/ManagementGuide/emr-iam-roles.html) allowing you to access your S3 buckets if required. | ||
| The standard installation (above) is easier, but if you need to use a version of Flink that Amazon doesn't support, |
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How about something like "Amazon EMR services are regularly updated to new releases but a version of Flink which is not available can be manually installed within a stock EMR cluster."?
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@greghogan Thanks for the feedback! |
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+1 to merge this! |
EMR now has explicit Flink support, so there's no need to install Flink by hand unless you need something custom.