Amazon EMR - Hue - LDAP Authentication


Last October, AWS announced the AWS Directory Service, which provides Active Directory in the AWS cloud. Several tools in the Hadoop ecosystem support LDAP authentication (AWS Directory Service is compatible with LDAP). This post focusses on configuring an Amazon EMR cluster using Hue with LDAP authentication. The post describes how to configure AWS Directory Services and how to launch an EMR cluster with Hue’s LDAP configuration.