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Securing Data on ElasticMapReduce

Duncan Chen takes us through data encryption options when using ElasticMapReduce:

Data encryption is an effective solution to bolster data security. You can make sure that only authorized users or applications read your sensitive data by encrypting your data and managing access to the encryption key. One of the main reasons that customers from regulated industries such as healthcare and finance choose Amazon EMR is because it provides them with a compliant environment to store and access data securely.

This post provides a detailed walkthrough of two new encryption options to help you secure your EMR cluster that handles sensitive data. The first option is native EBS encryption to encrypt volumes attached to EMR clusters. The second option is an Amazon S3 encryption that allows you to use different encryption modes and customer master keys (CMKs) for individual S3 buckets with Amazon EMR.

Click through for more details on each.