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Thursday, July 30, 2026

Cut Your AWS KMS Costs in EMR Spark Jobs Without Losing Encryption

Processing encrypted data in S3 with Amazon EMR and Apache Spark can get pricey fast as KMS decrypt API calls pile up. Learn three solid techniques—optimizing file formats with Apache Iceberg, aggregating data smartly, and leveraging AWS Glue Data Catalog partition indexes—to slash those costs while keeping your data locked down.

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