Amazon EMR Reviews in July 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons
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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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Anonymous User
11/27/18
"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
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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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Anonymous User
11/27/18
"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
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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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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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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
"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.
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Anonymous User
11/27/18
"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
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Anonymous User
11/27/18
"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
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Michael A
11/27/18
"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.
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