How to terminate/remove a job flow in Amazon EMR? - amazon-s3

I created a job flow using Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) and it failed due to some unknown reasons. Then I tried to terminate the job flow thru the AWS Management Console but the 'Terminate' button was disabled. Then I tried to terminate the job flow using the CLI and it showed that the job flow is terminated, but still it shows as failed in the job flow list when seen thru the CLI as well as in the Elastic MapReduce tab in the management console.
Please let me know how to remove the job flow from the list.
When I tried to debug the job flow it shows two errors:
The debugging functionality is not available for this job flow because you did not specify an Amazon S3 Log Path when you created it.
Job flow failed with reason: Invalid bucket name 'testBucket': buckets names must contain only lowercase letters, numbers, periods (.), and dashes (-).

You are facing two issues here:
Job Flow Failure
First and foremost, the problem triggering the termination state of the Amazon EMR job flow that's irritating you can be remedied immediately:
I created a job flow using Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) and
it failed due to some unknown reasons.
The reason for the job flow failure can actually be inferred from error 2 in the listing you provided:
Job flow failed with reason: Invalid bucket name 'testBucket': buckets
names must contain only lowercase letters, numbers, periods (.), and
dashes (-). [emphasis mine]
Your bucket name 'testBucket' clearly violates the stated lowercase naming requirement, thus changing the name to lowercase only (e.g. 'testbucket' or 'test-bucket') will allow you to run the job flow as desired.
Termination State
Furthermore, the Job Flow termination state is presumably no problem at all. While it can happen in rare cases, that Amazon EC2 instances or other resources are actually stuck in some state, what you are seeing is perfectly reasonable and normal at first sight:
It may take a while to completely terminate a job flow in the first place, see TerminateJobFlows:
The call to TerminateJobFlows is asynchronous. Depending on the
configuration of the job flow, it may take up to 5-20 minutes for
the job flow to completely terminate and release allocated
resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances. [emphasis mine]
Even terminated EC2 resources may be listed for quite a while still, see e.g. the AWS team response to EC2 Instance stuck in "terminated" state:
Terminated means "gone forever"; although sometimes it hangs around in
the UI for several hours. [emphasis mine]
I regularly witness this behavior for EC2 instances, which usually vanish from the instance listing quite some hours later only indeed. Consequently I suspect that the terminated job flow has meanwhile vanished from your job flow list.
Update
I've actually suspected this to be the case indeed, but am still unable to find related information in the official documentation; however, apparently terminated job flows are potentially visible one way or another for up to two month even, see e.g. the AWS team response to Console not showing jobs older than a month:
While the console lists all running job flows, it only displays
terminated job flows launched in the last month. Alternatively, you
can use the Ruby CLI to list all job flows launched in the last two
months with the following command: [...] [emphasis mine]

if your application is running on hadoop yarn, you can always use yarn to manage your application:
yarn application -list
yarn application -kill application_name

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How to overcome Spark "No Space left on the device" error in AWS Glue Job

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Value
Explanation
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true
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--write-shuffle-spills-to-s3
true
Optional
--conf
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As you may know, Spark will perform a shuffle on certain operations, writing the results to disk. When the shuffle is too large, it the job will fail and
There are 2 option to consider.
Upgrade your worker type to G.2X and/or increase the number of workers.
Implement AWS Glue Spark Shuffle manager with S3 [1]. To implement this option, you will need to downgrade to Glue version 2.0.
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Scroll down and open the drop down named "Security configuration, script libraries, and job parameters (optional)".
Under job parameters, enter the following key value pairs:
Key: --write-shuffle-files-to-s3 Value: true
Key: --write-shuffle-spills-to-s3 Value: true
Key: --conf Value:
spark.shuffle.glue.s3ShuffleBucket=S3://
Remember to replace the triangle brackets <> with the name of the S3 bucket where you would like to store the shuffle data.
5) Click "Save" then run the job.
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The documentation states that spark.local.dir is used to specify a local directory only.
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EMR : All slaves in the job flow were terminated due to Spot

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We have clusters in different environment (different AWS accounts) in same region :
One master node with market type : On Demand
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spot.
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I launched a cluster with master nodes as coordinator and core nodes as workers. Core nodes were spot instances. But, master node was on demand. After 5 weeks of cluster launch, i got this error message
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I see the spot pricing history, and it didn't reached around the max price I set.
What I have already done?
I have checked logs that are dumped to s3. I didn't found any information about the cause of termination. It just said
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To avoid data loss because of spot pricing/interruption the data needs to be backed up by either snapshot, frequent copy to s3 or leaving EBS volume behind.
Ref: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/spot-instance-terminate/
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Adding task nodes
Similar scenario : AWS EMR Error : All slaves in the job flow were terminated
For using Spot you might want to use instance termination notice and also setup the max price :
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-amazon-ec2-spot-pricing/

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