# AWS adds native data validation to EMR Spark jobs at no additional cost

_Published Monday, October 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM EDT · Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

AWS says Amazon EMR now supports data quality checks directly within Apache Spark jobs at no additional cost. The feature lets data engineering teams validate records during processing and fail pipelines, filter invalid records or route them to quarantine based on the results.

Powered by AWS Glue, it accepts rules written in Spark scripts or stored in the Glue Data Catalog. More than 30 rule types include comparisons with historical runs and machine learning detection of data drift without fixed thresholds. Results identify failures at dataset, rule and row level.

The feature supports Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi and Delta Lake across EC2, EKS and Serverless deployments. Availability requires AWS runtime for Apache Spark emr-spark-8.1.0 in commercial and US GovCloud regions where EMR operates.

## Sources

- [Recent Announcements](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/10/amazon-emr-data-quality-spark/)

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