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Auto partition secondary EBS on CentOS 7

If you add an additional blank EBS volume to a CentOS 7 EC2 instance, it won’t auto-partition in the same way as the primary volume gets resized on launch. Additionally if your baking an image you will certainly encounter problems with it not automounting on different instance types and even manually trying to mount it can give misleading error messages.

Using a S3 Hive Metastore with EMR

When configuring Hive to use EMRFS (i.e. s3://) instead of using the implied HDFS cluster storage of the metastore, which is vital if you want to have a persistent metastore that can survive clusters being destroyed and recreated; you might encounter this message: Access Denied (Service: Amazon S3; Status Code: 403;...) .