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

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Amazon EMR Reviews & Ratings

4.2

Very Good

Based on 93 ratings & 63 reviews

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(38)

Very Good

(22)

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Sivakumar D

11/27/18

4 out of 5

"EMR is great"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? I was able to quickly setup and run the workloads easily. Support team gave enough guidence to resolve issues What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Most of the featurestes are good,. one thing i felt is, it is less custmizable. What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? We we able to run some adhoc queries using Hive quickly with EMR

AU

Anonymous User

11/27/18

4 out of 5

"Mapreduce for the Cloud"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? EMR is simple to use, configure, and maintain. The number of components available in EMR is very good and serves almost all the usecases and rarely you will have to install a software on your own. The ability to mix instance lifecycles (spot, on-demand, reserved) is very helpful to optimize the costs What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? There isn't an easy way for setting up authorization and authentication in EMR. Cloudera does a better job in ...

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AU

Anonymous User

11/27/18

4 out of 5

"Hadoop cluster deployment made easy"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? auto scaling feature, integration of jupyter notebooks, Easy deployment of haoop cluster What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? One management node, if the management node goes down, then cluster goes down and the work is lost What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? Data processing of unstructured data

AU

Anonymous User

11/27/18

4 out of 5

"Review for AWS EMR"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? Managed Hadoop cluster clears a lot of operational hazards and optimizes cost. What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Nothins as such. It has been really nice using amazon EMR What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? Analytocs

DL

David L

11/27/18

4 out of 5

"Great Hadoop Environment in the cloud"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? Flexibility and quick setup. Ease of installing custom tools What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Security features are not simple to configure What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? Replacing Hadoop on premise

SD

Sivakumar D

11/27/18

4 out of 5

"EMR is great"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? I was able to quickly setup and run the workloads easily. Support team gave enough guidence to resolve issues What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Most of the featurestes are good,. one thing i felt is, it is less custmizable. What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? We we able to run some adhoc queries using Hive quickly with EMR

AU

Anonymous User

11/27/18

4 out of 5

"Mapreduce for the Cloud"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? EMR is simple to use, configure, and maintain. The number of components available in EMR is very good and serves almost all the usecases and rarely you will have to install a software on your own. The ability to mix instance lifecycles (spot, on-demand, reserved) is very helpful to optimize the costs What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? There isn't an easy way for setting up authorization and authentication in EMR. Cloudera does a better job in ...

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AU

Anonymous User

11/27/18

4 out of 5

"Hadoop cluster deployment made easy"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? auto scaling feature, integration of jupyter notebooks, Easy deployment of haoop cluster What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? One management node, if the management node goes down, then cluster goes down and the work is lost What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? Data processing of unstructured data

AU

Anonymous User

11/27/18

4 out of 5

"Review for AWS EMR"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? Managed Hadoop cluster clears a lot of operational hazards and optimizes cost. What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Nothins as such. It has been really nice using amazon EMR What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? Analytocs

DL

David L

11/27/18

4 out of 5

"Great Hadoop Environment in the cloud"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? Flexibility and quick setup. Ease of installing custom tools What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Security features are not simple to configure What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? Replacing Hadoop on premise