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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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Anonymous User

11/28/18

4.5 out of 5

"EMR: Easy Setup but Dispatching Work has Friction"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? Its very easy to set up and upgrade Spark clusters. Auto scaling with spot is also great, as it can save you lots of money on the correct workloads. What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? The step API does not allow you to run concurrent workloads and its unecessaraly difficult to set up a local client that is not located on the actual EMR cluster (i.e. dispatching work from a scheduler to a Spark cluster on EMR). What problems is Amazon EMR solving ...

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Anonymous User

11/28/18

4.5 out of 5

"Sqoop and spark operations in EMR"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? Ability to spin up hadoop clusters and scale them up or down as needed What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Long running EMR cluster ends up with bad nodes What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? Incremental data pipeline, ETL process using pyspark

AU

Anonymous User

11/28/18

4.5 out of 5

"EMR: Easy Setup but Dispatching Work has Friction"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? Its very easy to set up and upgrade Spark clusters. Auto scaling with spot is also great, as it can save you lots of money on the correct workloads. What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? The step API does not allow you to run concurrent workloads and its unecessaraly difficult to set up a local client that is not located on the actual EMR cluster (i.e. dispatching work from a scheduler to a Spark cluster on EMR). What problems is Amazon EMR solving ...

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Anonymous User

11/28/18

3.5 out of 5

"performance"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? good performance, ease of use and easy to spin cluster in EMR. Easy to integrate and build with terraform. What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? version constraints on components. It is really confusing to add components to the cluster coz of version constraints and its really hard to find good documentation. What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? analyics

AU

Anonymous User

11/28/18

3.5 out of 5

"performance"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? good performance, ease of use and easy to spin cluster in EMR. Easy to integrate and build with terraform. What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? version constraints on components. It is really confusing to add components to the cluster coz of version constraints and its really hard to find good documentation. What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? analyics

MA

Michael A

11/27/18

5 out of 5

"Amazon AWS EMR"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? The simplicity of creating an EMR Cluster What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Sometimes the time it takes to create a cluster in a specific region. What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? It allows my analytics team to troubleshoot customer issues as they arise and query a customer's current database.

AU

Anonymous User

11/27/18

5 out of 5

"EMR a great service for analytics"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? EMR is easy to use and helps you get started quickly with your ETL jobs What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? nothing. I actually enjoy what EMR offers What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? We are taking unstructured data or data that can't be used to make business decisons and transforming it into something in which our business can use.

AU

Anonymous User

11/27/18

5 out of 5

"emr"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? i like that it is fast, and pretty easy to use What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? i dont like how its hard to start jupyter notebooks from it What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? write machine learning models

AU

Anonymous User

11/27/18

4.5 out of 5

"EMR Review"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? The best part of EMR is the auto scaling option. This is highly cost effective. What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Sometimes the scaling is delyed. Whether its upscaling and douwnscaling. The jobs wait for resources and they dont get it Recommendations to others considering Amazon EMR: Please enhance the autoscaling timing What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? Big Data Processing

AU

Anonymous User

11/27/18

4.5 out of 5

"EMR Review"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? The best part of EMR is the auto scaling option. This is highly cost effective. What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Sometimes the scaling is delyed. Whether its upscaling and douwnscaling. The jobs wait for resources and they dont get it Recommendations to others considering Amazon EMR: Please enhance the autoscaling timing What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? Big Data Processing