EMR Serverless CF Stacked failed with "Error occurred during operation 'CreateApplication'"

Question

* below CF stack is failing with this error "Resource handler returned message: Error occurred during operation 'CreateApplication'." (RequestToken: , HandlerErrorCode: GeneralServiceException)"
* Region: eu-weat-1
* anyone knows what could be possible reasons for this error?

```
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09
Description: EMR serverless cluster

Resources:
  EmrSparkApp:
    Type: AWS::EMRServerless::Application
    Properties:
      Type: Spark
      ReleaseLabel: emr-6.9.0
      
Outputs:
  EmrSparkAppId:
    Description: Application ID of the EMR Serverless Spark App
    Value: !Ref EmrSparkApp
```

Accepted Answer

Have you configured EMR Serverless before attempting to deploy the template?

If you follow the [getting started](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/EMR-Serverless-UserGuide/getting-started.html) docs, you need to create a runtime role before you can starting using the service. You could do this once-off via the console or script it too.

If you have, check CloudTrail in that region for `EventName = CreateApplication` and check the returned error.

EMR Serverless CF Stacked failed with "Error occurred during operation 'CreateApplication'"

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