A data engineering team needs to perform complex Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) operations on large datasets stored in Amazon S3. They want to use Apache Spark for the transformations. Which TWO AWS services can provide a managed Apache Spark environment for this task? (Select TWO.)

Answer options:

AWS Glue

Amazon Athena

Amazon EMR

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

AWS Data Pipeline

How to approach this question

Identify the two AWS services that support Apache Spark: EMR (cluster-based) and Glue (serverless).

Full Answer

A,C

To run Apache Spark workloads on AWS, you have two primary managed options. Amazon EMR provides managed clusters where you have fine-grained control over the Spark environment. AWS Glue provides a serverless Apache Spark environment specifically optimized for ETL jobs.

Common mistakes

Choosing Athena, which uses Presto for SQL queries, not Spark for ETL.

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