Creating a cluster with Flink

To launch a cluster with Flink installed from the console

1. Open the Amazon EMR console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/emr.

2. Choose Create cluster, Go to advanced options.

3. For Software Configuration, choose EMR Release emr-5.1.0 or later.

4. Choose Flink as an application, along with any others to install.

5. Select other options as necessary and choose Create cluster.

To launch a cluster with Flink from the AWS CLI

• Create the cluster with the following command:

  aws emr create-cluster --release-label emr-7.8.0 \
  --applications Name=Flink \
  --configurations file://./configurations.json \
  --region us-east-1 \
  --log-uri s3://myLogUri \
  --instance-type m5.xlarge \
  --instance-count 2 \
  --service-role EMR_DefaultRole_V2 \ 
  --ec2-attributes KeyName=MyKeyName,InstanceProfile=EMR_EC2_DefaultRole \
  --steps Type=CUSTOM_JAR,Jar=command-runner.jar,Name=Flink_Long_Running_Session,\
  Args=flink-yarn-session,-d

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