title: Spark standalone mode on AWS EMR
body: <p>I'm able to run Spark on AWS EMR without much trouble following the <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticMapReduce/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-spark.html" rel="nofollow">documentation</a> but from what I see it always uses YARN instead of the standalone manager. Is there any way to use the standalone mode instead of YARN easily? I don't really feel like hacking the bootstrap scripts to turn off yarn and deploy spark master/workers myself. </p>
  
  <p>I'm running into a <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-12494" rel="nofollow">weird YARN related bug</a> and I was hoping it won't happen with standalone manager.</p>