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An operations team notices that a few AWS Glue jobs for a given ETL application are failing. The AWS Glue jobs read a large number of small JSON files from an
Amazon S3 bucket and write the data to a different S3 bucket in Apache Parquet format with no major transformations. Upon initial investigation, a data engineer notices the following error message in the History tab on the AWS Glue console: `Command Failed with Exit Code 1.`
Upon further investigation, the data engineer notices that the driver memory profile of the failed jobs crosses the safe threshold of 50% usage quickly and reaches
90`"95% soon after. The average memory usage across all executors continues to be less than 4%.
The data engineer also notices the following error while examining the related Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

What should the data engineer do to solve the failure in the MOST cost-effective way?

A. Change the worker type from Standard to G.2X.
B. Modify the AWS Glue ETL code to use the 'groupFiles': 'inPartition' feature.
C. Increase the fetch size setting by using AWS Glue dynamics frame.
D. Modify maximum capacity to increase the total maximum data processing units (DPUs) used.

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

by VikG12 at May 3, 2021, 7:15 p.m.

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jyrajan69

Highly Voted 3 years, 8 months ago

Bssed on the link, I will go for B https://awsfeed.com/whats-new/big-data/optimize-memory-management-in-aws-glue

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lakeswimmer

3 years, 6 months ago

B It is https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/grouping-input-files.html

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cloudlearnerhere

Highly Voted 2 years, 7 months ago

Correct answer is B as the key issue is the driver memory problem caused because of the glue job processing multiple small files. Grouping of the files helps group the files and hence Spark driver stores significantly less state in memory. In this scenario, a Spark job is reading a large number of small files from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). It converts the files to Apache Parquet format and then writes them out to Amazon S3. The Spark driver is running out of memory. The input Amazon S3 data has more than 1 million files in different Amazon S3 partitions. You can fix the processing of the multiple files by using the grouping feature in AWS Glue. Grouping is automatically enabled when you use dynamic frames and when the input dataset has a large number of files (more than 50,000). Grouping allows you to coalesce multiple files together into a group, and it allows a task to process the entire group instead of a single file. As a result, the Spark driver stores significantly less state in memory to track fewer tasks.

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cloudlearnerhere

2 years, 7 months ago

df = glueContext.create_dynamic_frame_from_options ("s3", {'paths': ["s3://input_path"], "recurse":True, 'groupFiles': 'inPartition'}, format="json") datasink = glueContext.write_dynamic_frame.from_options (frame = df, connection_type = "s3", connection_options = {"path": output_path}, format = "parquet", transformation_ctx = "datasink")

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cloudlearnerhere

2 years, 7 months ago

The driver runs below the threshold of 50 percent memory usage over the entire duration of the AWS Glue job. The executors stream the data from Amazon S3, process it, and write it out to Amazon S3. As a result, they consume less than 5 percent memory at any point in time.

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MLCL

Most Recent 1 year, 10 months ago

Selected Answer: B

B is the correct answer https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/grouping-input-files.html

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pk349

2 years, 1 month ago

B: I passed the test

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Mang2000

2 years, 4 months ago

B, more details you can find here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/monitor-profile-debug-oom-abnormalities.html

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2 years, 6 months ago

B https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/optimize-memory-management-in-aws-glue/

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he11ow0rId

2 years, 9 months ago

Selected Answer: B

D would work, but it's not the most COST EFFECTIVE way. So B

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rocky48

2 years, 11 months ago

Selected Answer: B

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samsanta2012

3 years ago

Selected Answer: D

A data processing unit (DPU) is a relative measure of processing power that consists of vCPUs and memory. Change the maximum capacity parameter value and set it to a higher number

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