📄️ Introduction to Spark Benchmarks
This guide walks you through running Apache Spark benchmark tests on Amazon EKS, AWS's managed Kubernetes service. Benchmark tests help evaluate and optimize Spark workloads on EKS comparing benchmark results run across different EC2 instance families of Graviton instances, especially when scaling for performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.
📄️ Data Generation
The following guide provides instructions on how to generate the data set for running the TPCDS benchmark tests for Spark.
📄️ Running the Benchmarks
The following guide provides instructions on how to execute the TPCDS benchmark tests for Spark.
📄️ Gravtion R-series Results
This page has the results of our benchmarking tests on R-series Graviton instances, demonstrating up to a 1.6x faster runtime on newer generation instances.