Apache Spark Gets a Speed Boost with GPU Acceleration on AWS

Amazon EMR on EKS now supercharges Apache Spark workloads up to 3.7x faster using NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 GPUs on EC2 G7 instances—without touching your existing code. The article breaks down TPC-DS benchmark results, cost comparisons, and a quick start guide for data engineers ready to squeeze more performance from their analytics pipelines.