Starburst Enterprise in AWS Marketplace CFT #

The AWS Marketplace CFT allows you to easily set up a monthly contract, after which you can deploy SEP using the CloudFormation Template (CFT).

Once deployed, is fully customizable, including connecting to services such as:

• Glue
• Hive Metastore
• Ranger and LDAP
• IAM
• CloudWatch

All of these service integrations are available in addition to Starburst’s suite of enhanced and exclusive connectors.

Choose our deployment type #

In addition to our marketplace offerings, SEP is also available to deploy on Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). We strongly recommend that you deploy using EKS unless there is a specific technical reason why you cannot.

If you intend to use CFT as a proof-of-concept before moving to an EKS deployment in production, please be aware that there is no direct path from a CFT deployment to an EKS deployment. Therefore, if you begin building a proof-of-concept using CloudFormation, you should expect to remain on CloudFormation for production.

Support for marketplace offerings #

Starburst offers the following support for our marketplace subscribers without an enterprise contract:

• Email-only support
• Five email issues to awssupport@starburstdata.com per month
• First response SLA of one business day
• Support between 9 AM - 6 PM US Eastern Time

Requirements #

Before you begin, you must have an AWS login with the ability to subscribe to services.

Your SEP AWS Marketplace subscription must be deployed on a Linux/Unix EC2 instance. Other operating systems are not supported.

Set up your subscription #

To subscribe to SEP through the AWS Marketplace:

1. Log in with your subscriber account and follow this link, or enter “Starburst Enterprise” in the marketplace search field and select Starburst Enterprise.
2. Scroll down to the Estimating your costs tool:
   1. Select your desired Region.
   2. Select CloudFormation Template as your Fulfillment option. Do not select the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) option.
   3. Select the Instance type.
3. Click Continue to subscribe at the top of the page.
4. On the Subscribe to this software screen that appears:
   1. Configure the contract, if desired.
   2. Manage the license as per your organization’s protocols using the Manage license option, if desired.
5. Click Continue to configuration.
6. On the Configure this software page, select CloudFormation Template option again in the Delivery method dropdown. Do not select the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) option.
7. In the “Software version” dropdown, confirm that the latest version is selected.
8. Confirm that the correct region is selected.
9. Click Continue to launch.
10. In the “Launch this software” screen, select the Launch CloudFormation option in the Choose Action dropdown.
11. Click Launch.

Create your stack and install SEP #

Once you have launched SEP, our install guide provides instructions for creating your stack and specifying cluster details.

Next steps #

Review the AWS documentation for guidance on implementing the following security and access control best practices:

• Grant least privilege in IAM policies
• Establish procedures to rotate IAM access keys

Follow the AWS documentation to review Service Quotas for your SEP deployment.

Read our CFT configuration section to begin customizing SEP. You can also set up these optional items:

• Glue
• Hive Metastore Service
• Apache Ranger
• CloudWatch

The following pages introduce key concepts and features in SEP:

• Data sources and catalogs
• Catalogs and Connectors
• Security
• Performance