setTerminationProtection
SetTerminationProtection locks a cluster (job flow) so the Amazon EC2 instances in the cluster cannot be terminated by user intervention, an API call, or in the event of a job-flow error. The cluster still terminates upon successful completion of the job flow. Calling SetTerminationProtection
on a cluster is similar to calling the Amazon EC2 DisableAPITermination
API on all Amazon EC2 instances in a cluster.
SetTerminationProtection
is used to prevent accidental termination of a cluster and to ensure that in the event of an error, the instances persist so that you can recover any data stored in their ephemeral instance storage.
To terminate a cluster that has been locked by setting SetTerminationProtection
to true
, you must first unlock the job flow by a subsequent call to SetTerminationProtection
in which you set the value to false
.
For more information, see Managing Cluster Termination in the Amazon EMR Management Guide.