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Does Anaconda Adam work with a cluster that already has a managed Spark/Hadoop stack?
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Yes, you can install Adam alongside existing Hadoop distributions
such as Cloudera CDH or Hortonworks HDP. You can use Adam to
manage Python and R conda packages and environments across a
cluster.

Which cloud providers does Adam support?
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Currently, Adam offers full support for Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (EC2).

Can I use Adam with a different cloud provider?
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Yes, you can manually create instances on another cloud provider
and then provision the nodes. For more information, see
:doc:`user-guide/tasks/index`.

Which network ports need to be accessible from the client machine and cluster nodes?
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For communication between the cluster nodes, ports 22, 4505 and
4506 are used to provision the cluster via SSH and Salt.
