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The PowerScale storage solution directly uses Amazon EMR, showing interoperability beyond regular NFS or SMB protocol mounts to virtual machine (VM) instances. In this solution, Amazon EMR Service uses the HDFS protocol to read and write data at high speed to the PowerScale file storage.