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aws-emr-launcher is a generic python library that enables to provision emr clusters with yaml config files (Configuration as Code).

For provisioning an EMR cluster, we need to provide -

• YAML configuration files (defines bootstrap actions, step definitions, instance definitions etc.)

• Input variables which serve as parameters for the configuration files

aws-emr-launcher package performs the following tasks:

1. Reads the default and environment specific configurations

2. Substitutes the placeholders in the config files with the input variables

3. Provisions EMR clusters and adds steps for each region supplied