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What do you like best about Amazon EMR?

No traditional multiprocess is required, distributes the work between the client node, best and earlier work found was using pspark with a data frame with a high level of python APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EMR?

The platform is tightly packed, it will be difficult to do configuration changes on YAML files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon EMR:

If you have log running/ processing task you can reduce you resource and processing time using EMR Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you?

batch processing is really fast with million of data traffic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon EMR Overview

What is Amazon EMR?

Amazon EMR is a web-based service that simplifies big data processing, providing a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to distribute and process vast amounts of data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances.

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Amazon EMR is a web-based service that simplifies big data processing, providing a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to distribute and process vast amounts of data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances.


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4.5 out of 5
"Using emr from past 5 years"
EMR we are using for running business logic on large business data received from various sources and third pary vendors
Raghwendra S.
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Raghwendra S.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"One stop compute solution to run all kinds of applications like apache spark , flink, trino"
It is very easy to launch or clone EMR cluster. And EMR provides very easy scaling capabilities based on containers, cpu , spot instances, usage of...
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Gaurav M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Best On Cloud solution for big data"
Amazon EMR is a much more powerful product to deploy big data solutions on top of Spark, Flink, scoop, etc. It is very is to configure and provides...
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What do you like best about Amazon EMR?

EMR we are using for running business logic on large business data received from various sources and third pary vendors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EMR?

Auto scaling for task and core nodes is slow and takes more than 15 minutes normally which causes failure of running jobs due to lack of resources on cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using emr we process large amount of data and create reports which are sent to different business lines for consumption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raghwendra S.
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What do you like best about Amazon EMR?

It is very easy to launch or clone EMR cluster. And EMR provides very easy scaling capabilities based on containers, cpu , spot instances, usage of insance fleet or instance groups . And EMR supports many of the widely used applications like Spark, Hive, Hadoop, Trino, Presto, Ranger , Flink etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EMR?

Working with Spot instances on EMR is slightly complicated during unavailability of spot instances when you need to use instances on once particular availability zone. Many solutions like databricks provide fallback which are even more easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon EMR is helping us create the dataplatform , run 3000-6000 data pipeline jobs daily and it is also helping us consume the data stored in the datalake for visualizations , applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gaurav  M.
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What do you like best about Amazon EMR?

Amazon EMR is a much more powerful product to deploy big data solutions on top of Spark, Flink, scoop, etc. It is very is to configure and provides a nice UI that helps a lot in debugging spark jobs. Apart from that, from an observability point of view, EMR dumps all logs to S3 and the cloud watch which eventually helps developers to debug memory issues in the cluster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EMR?

I don't like the notebook interface it provides, it doesn't have features like auto-completion etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you?

We heavily rely on EMR to run our spark ETL jobs, every day we run thousands of ETL which power our analytics dashboards which eventually is consumed by finance, marketing, CEO deck team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pechi Muthu A.
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What do you like best about Amazon EMR?

Great User Experience and User Interface

Faster

More scalable

Can Automate Easily

Read input from multiple sources

Write output to multiple sources

Accepted different types of programming language Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EMR?

Booting up takes time that needs more patience

great tool but expensive that is one of the main disadvantage

Other than that nothing, everything looks great, I am using it every day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you?

We run Big Data Jobs with EMR, where we use Pyspark as a framework and Python is a programming language. Our entire big data project runs on EMR, with weekly schedule.

We use AWS CLI to trigger the job.

Integrated with Slack whenever EMR steps goes down or completed state using Slack webhook..

We use this alert with the help of EMR -> EventBridge -> Slack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon EMR?

My workloads run faster and I have more time to work on refining the code, instead of just sitting down waiting for the query to run Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EMR?

It's not as elastic as promoted. I would like the cluster to scale in real time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you?

Run big data analytics faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon EMR?

Control of specifying the configuration, and the debugging support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EMR?

Troubleshooting incidents is hard with support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you?

Spark applications, and drives all data pipelines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kallesha C.
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What do you like best about Amazon EMR?

> One of the multiclustered architectures for bigdata processing which includes all kind of files

> User does not need to worry about maintaience of the clustes and clusters will be dynamically replaced based on failure

> Its one of the architecutes for map reduce proceesing(hadoop processing), can process PB data using multithreaded architecure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EMR?

> its not serverless, i.e admin/user need to manually provision the clusters for processing, and to be deleted after processing

> Cost is comparatively more in comparision with serverless services available in AWS

> EMR comes with 2 master nodes, if both master nodes fails, EMR cluster will go down, i.e users need to provision for multi az cluster to avoid node failures Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you?

> Built pb processing hadoop framework on EMR to process complex files

> migrated entire hadoop framework to AWS EMR, cost and maintaince is comparitively better with AWS EMR

> used hadoop spark processing to process the files on s3, EC2 and data from APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vijay P.
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What do you like best about Amazon EMR?

Ease of creating EMR instances and choosing required Softwares to have reinstalled (Spark/Hive/etc.). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EMR?

Cost is somewhat high and can be a limiting factor sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon EMR:

Consider the cost aspects and have someone with some experience using EMR to help out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Amazon EMR instances to develop and deploy all our machine learning solutions.

Ease of scaling ensures we don't have to spend too much time on development, and we can quickly move to deployment.

We majorly use EMR clusters for Spark computations, and we generate a lot of revenue from our data-based decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul P.
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What do you like best about Amazon EMR?

User customisable plans and cost efficiency, and best UI ofcourse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EMR?

Cloud processes are still slow as it's virtual, but still it's a better choice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have many data science tasks like calculating statistics and various mathematical functions and then implementing solution provided by business. one of the best service to work on bigdata. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon EMR?

Easy to setup.

Cost friendly.

Faster processing.

Quick management.

Monitoring as an add up.

Higly scalable.

Can be integrated with lots of technologies.

More secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EMR?

For setting up Amazon EMR Clusters its reauires a good AWS skilled labours and also it is a bit difficult for a new bie to attach and find applicable permissions and policies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon EMR:

Nice tool for bigdata works Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides a good Graphical user interface for managing and working with big data's map reduce jobs rather than the manual setup with hadoop or cli.it saves a lot of time & efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.