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Amazon EMR Reviews in January 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

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Amazon EMR Reviews & Ratings

4.2

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Based on 93 ratings & 63 reviews

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Raghwendra S

12/15/23

5 out of 5

"One stop compute solution to run all kinds of applications like apache spark , flink, trino"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? It is very easy to launch or clone EMR cluster. And EMR provides very easy scaling capabilities based on containers, cpu , spot instances, usage of insance fleet or instance groups . And EMR supports many of the widely used applications like Spark, Hive, Hadoop, Trino, Presto, Ranger , Flink etc What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Working with Spot instances on EMR is slightly complicated during unavailability of spot instances when you need to use ...

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Gaurav M

08/03/23

4.5 out of 5

"Best On Cloud solution for big data"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? Amazon EMR is a much more powerful product to deploy big data solutions on top of Spark, Flink, scoop, etc. It is very is to configure and provides a nice UI that helps a lot in debugging spark jobs. Apart from that, from an observability point of view, EMR dumps all logs to S3 and the cloud watch which eventually helps developers to debug memory issues in the cluster What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? I don't like the notebook interface it ...

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Atin T

12/09/22

5 out of 5

"Used EMR in our data platform"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? Control of specifying the configuration, and the debugging support What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Troubleshooting incidents is hard with support What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? Spark applications, and drives all data pipelines

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Francisco L

12/08/22

5 out of 5

"Makes big data analytics easier"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? My workloads run faster and I have more time to work on refining the code, instead of just sitting down waiting for the query to run What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? It's not as elastic as promoted. I would like the cluster to scale in real time What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? Run big data analytics faster

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Pechi Muthu A

09/03/22

4.5 out of 5

"Great Tool for Big Data Operations"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? Great User Experience and User Interface Faster More scalable Can Automate Easily Read input from multiple sources Write output to multiple sources Accepted different types of programming language What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Booting up takes time that needs more patience great tool but expensive that is one of the main disadvantage Other than that nothing, everything looks great, I am using it every day. What problems is Amazon EMR solving ...

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NEVIL RAYAN S

05/05/22

4 out of 5

"EMR is a wonderful if you have headache on your application which is taking more resource issue"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? No traditional multiprocess is required, distributes the work between the client node, best and earlier work found was using pspark with a data frame with a high level of python APIs What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? The platform is tightly packed, it will be difficult to do configuration changes on YAML files Recommendations to others considering Amazon EMR: If you have log running/ processing task you can reduce you resource and processing time ...

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NEVIL RAYAN S

05/05/22

4 out of 5

"EMR is a wonderful if you have headache on your application which is taking more resource issue"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? No traditional multiprocess is required, distributes the work between the client node, best and earlier work found was using pspark with a data frame with a high level of python APIs What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? The platform is tightly packed, it will be difficult to do configuration changes on YAML files Recommendations to others considering Amazon EMR: If you have log running/ processing task you can reduce you resource and processing time ...

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Rahul P

04/07/22

5 out of 5

"Multipurpose and Efficient EMR"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? User customisable plans and cost efficiency, and best UI ofcourse. What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Cloud processes are still slow as it's virtual, but still it's a better choice What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? I have many data science tasks like calculating statistics and various mathematical functions and then implementing solution provided by business. one of the best service to work on bigdata.

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Vinodraj M

03/17/22

4.5 out of 5

"It's easy to make a cluster in Realtime and to run the jobs quickly."

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? Easy to connect with different services like s3 and powerful service for processing big data What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? EMR logs to s3 (Application log) takes some time to gets created. What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? Bigdata processing and no cluster maintaince

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Anonymous User

03/15/22

5 out of 5

"A great service for managing bigdata"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? Easy to setup. Cost friendly. Faster processing. Quick management. Monitoring as an add up. Higly scalable. Can be integrated with lots of technologies. More secure. What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? For setting up Amazon EMR Clusters its reauires a good AWS skilled labours and also it is a bit difficult for a new bie to attach and find applicable permissions and policies. Recommendations to others considering Amazon EMR: Nice tool for bigdata ...

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