AWS Graviton instances in CDE

AWS Graviton is a general purpose, ARM-based processor family. AWS Graviton delivers currently the best price performance for cloud workloads running in AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). With AWS Graviton, you can optimize costs and achieve better performance. From the AWS Graviton family, CDE supports AWS Graviton 3.

Prerequisites for using AWS Graviton in CDE

For information on the prerequisites, such as the Data Lake and the Spark supported versions, see Compatibility for Cloudera Data Engineering and Runtime components.

If your Data Lake version is not supported by Graviton, see Upgrading a Data Lake.

Considerations for using AWS Graviton in your cluster

By default, AWS Graviton is available to all customers for CDE service compute nodes if the component version requirements are met.

To use AWS Graviton, when enabling a CDE service, select from the available Graviton instances listed under the Workload type drop-down list.

With AWS Graviton, the use of SSD instances is supported, but using spot instances is not supported.

If you select the AWS Graviton workload when creating the service:

All Virtual Clusters will run AWS Graviton. Running a subset of Virtual Clusters or jobs on non-Graviton instances is not supported.
To check the list of Spark versions supported by Graviton, see Compatibility for Cloudera Data Engineering and Runtime components.