--- title: Run interactive workloads on Amazon EMR on EC2 with... description: Amazon EMR on EC2 now supports interactive Apache Spark sessions via Spark Connect, enabling data engineers and scientists to develop and debug Spark... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/run-interactive-workloads-on-amazon-emr-on-ec2-with-spark-connect-6faagxn6k twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Run interactive workloads on Amazon EMR on EC2 with Spark Connect | daily.dev og:description: Amazon EMR on EC2 now supports interactive Apache Spark sessions via Spark Connect, enabling data engineers and scientists to develop and debug Spark... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/run-interactive-workloads-on-amazon-emr-on-ec2-with-spark-connect-6faagxn6k og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6faAgxn6k.png og:image:alt: Run interactive workloads on Amazon EMR on EC2 with Spark Connect og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Run interactive workloads on Amazon EMR on EC2 with Spark Connect **[AWS](https://daily.dev/sources/aws)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Amazon EMR on EC2 now supports interactive Apache Spark sessions via Spark Connect, enabling data engineers and scientists to develop and debug Spark applications from managed notebooks in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio or local IDEs like Jupyter and VS Code. Each session runs on a dedicated EMR on EC2 cluster with a persistent Spark context, supporting ad hoc exploration, iterative debugging, and incremental PySpark development. Observability features include real-time Spark UI monitoring, Spark History Server tracking, and session management via the EMR console or API/CLI/SDK. Available on EMR with AWS runtime for Apache Spark (emr-spark-8.0) and later in most AWS regions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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