When you deploy Big Data Management in the Amazon AWS cloud environment, you can run mappings in a cluster on Amazon EMR against sources and targets in Amazon S3 or other Amazon data repositories. This section explains the following functional features:
Connectivity. Perform configuration tasks to enable connectivity between your data warehouse and AWS.
Transformations. Transformations perform specific functions within big data mappings.
Ephemeral clusters. Use an ephemeral cluster strategy to save AWS resources.
Auto-scaling. Configure auto-scaling to scale out (increase) and scale in (decrease) core and task nodes for Spark mapping processing.