Amazon EMR Reviews in July 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons
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Spotsaas Editor’s POV
Amazon EMR stands out as a versatile and powerful solution for running a variety of applications like Apache Spark, Flink, and Trino in a streamlined manner. Users commend its ease of launching and cloning EMR clusters, as well as its robust scaling capabilities and support for widely used applications. The platform's control over configurations and debugging ...Read more
Amazon EMR pros and cons
Ease of launching or cloning EMR clusters and scaling based on various parameters like containers, CPU, etc.
Supports widely used applications like Spark, Hive, Hadoop, Flink, etc.
Provides easy configuration control and debugging support.
Improved workloads' speed leading to more time for code refinement.
Working with Spot instances can be complicated, especially during unavailability.
Lack of features like auto-completion in the notebook interface.
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john d
11/28/18
"EMR"
What do you like best about Amazon EMR? the ability to spin up cluster size based upon the needs of each job What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? error logging is sometimes hard to track down root cause Recommendations to others considering Amazon EMR: start with small jobs, take adavantage of new freatures in newer releases What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? we are building data assets for multiple business units to share via S3 and Redshift
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Anonymous User
11/28/18
"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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Sushanth R
11/28/18
"Quick and easy setup"
What do you like best about Amazon EMR? SImplicity of emr in usability and scalability. Seamless access to s3 What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Can be expensive to start with. Need to have some understanding of other aws features to start using it. What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? Data analytics
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Anonymous User
11/28/18
"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
"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
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Anonymous User
11/27/18
"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
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David L
11/27/18
"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
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Sivakumar D
11/27/18
"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
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Anonymous User
11/27/18
"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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Anonymous User
11/27/18
"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
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