Building Hadoop jobs with dependencies in a specific EMR release version

When you build different Hadoop, Hive, or Spark jobs and execute them on a specific version of the EMR cluster, you might often face version conflict issues between your application code and its dependencies because the specific versions of libraries your code expects might not be available in the cluster. So, it's necessary that you build your application code against the libraries available in the cluster.

Starting with the Amazon EMR 5.18.0 release, you can integrate the Amazon EMR artifact repository, using which you can build your application to avoid version conflicts or runtime classpath errors when you execute them in the EMR cluster.

You can add the artifact repository to your Maven project or with pom.xml, which has the following syntax:

https://<s3-endpoint>/<region-ID-emr-artifacts>/<emr-release-label>/repos/maven/

Now, let's understand each parameter of the...