Scheduling Provisioning and Termination of Amazon EMR Clusters with AWS Service Catalog Connector for ServiceNow | Amazon Web Services by Itai David, Publisher: AWS

Data scientists across various institutions are utilizing Amazon EMR clusters to run analytics workloads. These data scientists require prescriptive guidance to automatically schedule the provisioning and termination of Amazon EMR clusters to keep up with the rate of innovation, and to save cost.

Scheduling when to provision clusters allows data scientists to run analytics workloads at their own schedule. Scheduling when to terminate clusters allows them to run analytics workloads only when they need them.

In this post, I will demonstrates how to automatically schedule provisioning and termination of Amazon EMR clusters by utilizing AWS Service Catalog Connector for ServiceNow. The capability discussed in this post can also be extended to other AWS services.

ServiceNow is an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner that gives enterprises complete visibility and control of their IT environment, including virtualized and cloud infrastructure.

ServiceNow simplifies service mapping, delivery, and assurance, consolidating IT service and infrastructure data into a single system of record. Read more: Scheduling Provisioning and Termination of Amazon EMR Clusters with AWS Service Catalog Connector for ServiceNow | Amazon Web Services