I tried both M4 and R3. R3 is slightly more expensive, but has larger memory.
If you doing a lot of in-memory staff, like Join. I recommend R3. Otherwise M4 is fine. Also I remember M4 is EBS instance, so you have to pay for additional EBS cost as well. On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Saurabh Malviya (samalviy) < samal...@cisco.com> wrote: > We are going to use EMR cluster for spark jobs in aws. Any suggestion for > instance type to be used. > > > > M3.xlarge or r3.xlarge. > > > > Details: > > 1) We are going to run couple of streaming jobs so we need on demand > instance type. > > 2) There is no data on hdfs/s3 all data pull from kafka or elastic > search > > > > > > -Saurabh >
