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Amazon EMR Reviews in May 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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Excellent

(38)

Very Good

(22)

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(1)

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Expert's Review

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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Chris H

01/26/18

5 out of 5

"We've moved our hadoop processing here"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? Ease of spinning up clusters on-demand to save $$$ What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Not much! We had a fairly easy tiime getting Spark on EMR running. Was a little troublesome at first, but once we learned the platform, we love it! What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? We have moved our hadoop/sqoop data processing here. This allows us to offload the MV refresh process we used to have in place inside Oracle, thus ...

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Anonymous User

11/20/17

4.5 out of 5

"Easy way to run Big data applications in the cloud"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? Amazon EMR is easy to setup and use. There are plenty of ways to get started, such as the AWS EMR console, or you can automate the whole thing using AWS command line tool awscli, or the boto3 api for Python. We use a combination of awscli and boto3 for automation. It provides best in class tools built in, and integration with other amazon services such as s3 for data as well as log aggregation, etc. It also provides a way to use AWS EC2 Spot ...

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AU

Anonymous User

11/20/17

4.5 out of 5

"Easy way to run Big data applications in the cloud"

What do you like best about Amazon EMR? Amazon EMR is easy to setup and use. There are plenty of ways to get started, such as the AWS EMR console, or you can automate the whole thing using AWS command line tool awscli, or the boto3 api for Python. We use a combination of awscli and boto3 for automation. It provides best in class tools built in, and integration with other amazon services such as s3 for data as well as log aggregation, etc. It also provides a way to use AWS EC2 Spot ...

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