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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

15 months

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Amazon EMR Reviews (65)

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Amazon EMR Reviews (65)

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Users consistently praise the ease of use and scalability of Amazon EMR, highlighting its ability to quickly launch clusters and manage big data workloads efficiently. The platform's integration with various tools and services enhances its functionality, making it a preferred choice for many. However, some users note that auto-scaling can be slow, which may lead to resource issues during peak demands.

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Gayathri D.
GD
Data Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy EMR Job Testing with Clear, Accurate Error Logs"
What do you like best about Amazon EMR?

EMR is easy to run single job for testing and it gives exact log error Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EMR?

Sometimes it fails because of scaling up/down. So we have to tune it manually Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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CI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Using emr from past 5 years"
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.

Raghwendra S.
RS
SDE 4
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"One stop compute solution to run all kinds of applications like apache spark , flink, trino"
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.

Gaurav  M.
GM
Data engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best On Cloud solution for big data"
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.

Pechi Muthu A.
PA
Senior Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great Tool for Big Data Operations"
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.

FL
Data Analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Makes big data analytics easier"
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.

AT
Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Used EMR in our data platform"
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.

Kallesha C.
KC
Data Enigneer - Consultant II
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"AWS EMR review"
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.

Vijay P.
VP
Analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Excellent cloud computation product"
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.

Rahul P.
RP
DevOps Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Multipurpose and Efficient EMR"
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.

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

15 months

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