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Dataphin:Set Amazon EMR as the compute engine for a Dataphin instance

Last Updated:Jun 17, 2026

Before you create a project for data development, you must set a compute engine for your Dataphin instance. After you set a compute engine, you can add the corresponding compute source to a project to provide computing and storage resources.

Prerequisites

The system metadata is initialized. For more information, see Initialize the metadata warehouse by using Amazon EMR as the metadata warehouse engine.

Limits

When Amazon EMR is set as the metadata warehouse compute engine, only Amazon EMR can be used as the compute source engine.

Procedure

  1. In the top navigation bar of the Dataphin homepage, choose Management Hub > System Settings.

  2. In the left navigation bar, choose Tenant Settings > Compute Settings.

  3. On the Compute Settings page, select Amazon EMR.

  4. Click Save.

What to do next

After you set a compute engine for your Dataphin instance, you can add the corresponding compute source to a project to provide computing and storage resources. For more information, see Create a general project.