AWS EMR Skills#

A Python skill for interacting with AWS EMR across three deployment modes: EMR Serverless, EMR on EC2, and EMR on EKS. Submit Spark and Hive jobs, manage clusters and applications, monitor job status, and retrieve logs.

When to Use (Trigger Phrases)#

Invoke this skill when the user mentions:

text

"Submit a Spark job on EMR"
"List EMR Serverless applications"
"Add a step to my EMR cluster"
"Get EMR job logs"
"Check EMR job status"
"Cancel running EMR job"
"List EMR clusters"
"Create an EMR on EKS virtual cluster"
"Submit PySpark to EMR Serverless"
"Get step logs from EMR cluster"

Any request involving EMR Serverless applications/jobs, EMR on EC2 clusters/steps, or EMR on EKS virtual clusters/job runs.

Feature List#

EMR Serverless#

• Applications: List, describe, start, stop EMR Serverless applications
• Job Submission: Submit Spark SQL, Spark JAR, PySpark, and Hive jobs (sync/async)
• Job Lifecycle: Get status, cancel, list job runs
• Results: Retrieve SQL query results from S3
• Logs: Get driver stdout/stderr logs with secret masking

EMR on EC2#

• Clusters: List, describe, terminate EMR clusters
• Step Submission: Add Spark, PySpark, and Hive steps via command-runner.jar
• Step Lifecycle: List, describe, cancel steps
• Logs: Get step logs (stderr, stdout, controller, syslog) from S3

EMR on EKS#

• Virtual Clusters: List, describe, create, delete virtual clusters
• Job Submission: Submit Spark and Spark SQL jobs to EKS
• Job Lifecycle: Describe, list, cancel job runs
• Logs: Get job logs from S3

Initial Setup#

1. Python 3.8+ with boto3>=1.26.0: bash

   pip install boto3>=1.26.0
   
   

2. AWS credentials via boto3 default chain (env vars, config files, IAM roles).

3. Environment variables (all optional, validated at point of use): bash

   export AWS_REGION="us-east-1"
   
   # EMR Serverless
   export EMR_SERVERLESS_APP_ID="00abcdef12345678"
   export EMR_SERVERLESS_EXEC_ROLE_ARN="arn:aws:iam::123456789:role/emr-role"
   export EMR_SERVERLESS_S3_LOG_URI="s3://my-bucket/emr-logs/"
   
   # EMR on EC2
   export EMR_CLUSTER_ID="j-XXXXXXXXXXXXX"
   
   # EMR on EKS
   export EMR_EKS_VIRTUAL_CLUSTER_ID="abc123def456"
   export EMR_EKS_EXEC_ROLE_ARN="arn:aws:iam::123456789:role/emr-eks-role"
   
   

How to Manage EMR#

1. EMR Serverless#

Fully managed serverless Spark/Hive execution. No infrastructure to manage.

• Application management: scripts/on_serverless/emr_serverless_cli.py — 14 @tool functions
• Detailed guide: references/emr_serverless/application_guide.md — Application lifecycle
• Detailed guide: references/emr_serverless/job_guide.md — Job submission, results, logs

2. EMR on EC2#

Traditional EMR clusters on EC2 instances. Submit work as Steps.

• Cluster & step management: scripts/on_ec2/emr_on_ec2_cli.py — 10 @tool functions
• Detailed guide: references/emr_on_ec2/cluster_guide.md — Cluster lifecycle
• Detailed guide: references/emr_on_ec2/step_guide.md — Step submission, logs

3. EMR on EKS#

Spark workloads on Amazon EKS via the emr-containers API.

• Virtual cluster & job management: scripts/on_eks/emr_on_eks_cli.py — 10 @tool functions
• Detailed guide: references/emr_on_eks/virtual_cluster_guide.md — Virtual cluster lifecycle
• Detailed guide: references/emr_on_eks/job_run_guide.md — Job submission, logs

Available Scripts#

ScriptDescriptionscripts/on_serverless/emr_serverless_cli.pyEMR Serverless @tool functions (14 tools)scripts/on_ec2/emr_on_ec2_cli.pyEMR on EC2 @tool functions (10 tools)scripts/on_eks/emr_on_eks_cli.pyEMR on EKS @tool functions (10 tools)scripts/config/emr_config.pyUnified configuration managementscripts/client/boto_client.pyboto3 client factory

References#

DocumentDescriptionreferences/emr_serverless/application_guide.mdEMR Serverless application management guidereferences/emr_serverless/job_guide.mdEMR Serverless job submission and management guidereferences/emr_on_ec2/cluster_guide.mdEMR on EC2 cluster management guidereferences/emr_on_ec2/step_guide.mdEMR on EC2 step submission and management guidereferences/emr_on_eks/virtual_cluster_guide.mdEMR on EKS virtual cluster management guidereferences/emr_on_eks/job_run_guide.mdEMR on EKS job run management guide

Requirements#

• When writing temporary files (scripts, notes, etc.), place them in the ./tmp folder.
• When importing scripts packages, add the skill root to path: sys.path.append(${emr_skill_root})
• AWS credentials are handled by boto3's default credential chain — never pass access keys directly.
• All configuration environment variables are optional and validated at the point of use.

Data Privacy & Trust#

• No credential storage: AWS credentials are resolved via boto3 default chain. No keys are stored or logged.
• Secret masking: Log retrieval functions automatically mask potential AWS credentials in output.
• Read-only by default: Most operations are read-only queries. Write operations (job submission, cluster termination) require explicit user action.

External Endpoints#

This skill connects to:

• AWS EMR Serverless API ( emr-serverless.{region}.amazonaws.com)
• AWS EMR API ( elasticmapreduce.{region}.amazonaws.com)
• AWS EMR Containers API ( emr-containers.{region}.amazonaws.com)
• AWS S3 API ( s3.{region}.amazonaws.com) — for log and result retrieval