I do have n number of .zip files on s3, which I want to process and extract some data out of them. zip files contains a single json file. In Spark we can read .gz files, but I didn't find any way to read data within .zip files. Can someone please help me out how can I process large zip files over spark using python. I came across some options like newAPIHadoopFile, but didn't get any luck with them, nor found way to implement them in pyspark. Please note the zip files are >1G, some are of 20G as well. Below is code, which I used: import zipfile import io file_name = "s3 file path for zip file" def zip_extract(x): in_memory_data = io.BytesIO(x[1]) file_obj = zipfile.ZipFile(in_memory_data, "r") files = [i for i in file_obj.namelist()] return dict(zip(files, [file_obj.open(file).read() for file in files])) zips = sc.binaryFiles(file_name) files_data = zips.map(zip_extract) But it's failing because of below reason. The instance which I'm using is r42x.large. Exit code: 52 Stack trace: ExitCodeException exitCode=52: Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling zrg.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRDD.runJob. : org.apache.spark.SparkException: Job aborted due to stage failure: Task 0 in stage 0.0 failed 4 times, most recent failure: Lost task 0.3 in stage 0.0 Continue reading...