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Amazon EMR

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in Hadoop Distributions
4.4

Overview

Product Information on Amazon EMR

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Amazon EMR?

Amazon EMR is a software for processing and analyzing large datasets using open-source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, and Presto. The software enables users to run distributed data processing workloads on scalable cloud infrastructure, automating provisioning and configuration of cluster resources. It supports a range of data analytics tasks including batch processing, machine learning workflows, and interactive SQL queries. Amazon EMR software is designed to address challenges related to managing big data environments, helping organizations reduce operational overhead and optimize resource usage for analytics and business intelligence initiatives.

Amazon EMR Pricing

Amazon EMR is a software that uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on the compute and storage resources consumed by clusters. Charges are determined by factors such as instance type, instance count, region, and additional features. There are no upfront costs or long-term commitments, and pricing details vary depending on configuration and usage duration.

Overall experience with Amazon EMR

Director of Engineering
250M - 500M USD, Banking
FAVORABLE

“EMR Delivers Strong Compute Capacity for Pyspark-Based Data Processing Tasks”

5.0
Dec 1, 2025
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Data Analyst
250M - 500M USD, Retail
CRITICAL

“Awesome product but needs some changes”

3.0
Dec 2, 2025
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Updated 23rd December 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://aws.amazon.com

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Amazon EMR Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(60 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
42%
4 Star
52%
3 Star
7%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • Director of Engineering
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    EMR Delivers Strong Compute Capacity for Pyspark-Based Data Processing Tasks

    5.0
    Dec 1, 2025
    EMR provides high compute capacity for our data processing needs. We have several models being executed on EMR using Pyspark
  • Director of Engineering
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    EMR Delivers Strong Compute Capacity for Pyspark-Based Data Processing Tasks

    5.0
    Dec 1, 2025
    EMR provides high compute capacity for our data processing needs. We have several models being executed on EMR using Pyspark
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Performance of Amazon EMR Across Market Features

Amazon EMR Likes & Dislikes

Like

Great high compute platform

Like

Great high compute platform

Like

Great high compute platform

Dislike

finding failure is hard

Dislike

finding failure is hard

Dislike

finding failure is hard

Reviewer Insights for: Amazon EMR