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Run interactive workloads on Amazon EMR on EKS with Spark Connect

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Adds interactive Spark sessions via Spark Connect on Amazon EMR on EKS, enabling development from SageMaker Studio notebooks, Jupyter, VS Code, etc.
Provides persistent Spark contexts that run as pods on virtual clusters, secured with IAM roles and project/user tags.
Available with EMR release 7.14 (Spark 3.5) and emr-spark-8.1.0 (Spark 4.1) across all AWS Commercial Regions.

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