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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. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [Amazon EMR Community](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-emr/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by NIKKI ROUDA Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 15 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-emr/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Databricks](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Databricks") Databricks 4.6/5(1,364) ](https://www.g2.com/products/databricks/reviews) [ ![Snowflake](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Snowflake") Snowflake 4.6/5(764) ](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews) [ ![Qubole](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Qubole") Qubole 4/5(259) ](https://www.g2.com/products/qubole/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-emr/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 70 real user reviews. 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AP Atharva P. Cloud BI Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/19/2026 "Tackles Big Data Effortlessly But Needs Better Cost Management" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon EMR? What I like best about Amazon EMR is its ability to process large scale data workloads using frameworks like Spark, Hadoop, and Hive without manually setting up complex big data infrastructure. It provides flexibility while integrating well with the Amazon AWS ecosystem. The flexibility of choosing frameworks while leveraging cloud scalability is very helpful. It also provides strong processing capability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Cluster configuration and optimization can become complex, especially for large production workloads. Cost management also requires attention because poorly configured clusters can lead to unnecessary compute usage. Also, there is no serverless model in Amazon EMR as Dataproc serverless in GCP, which I don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? Amazon EMR solves large-scale distributed data processing challenges, processing data faster and reducing infrastructure management efforts. It enables scalable processing of large datasets and eases integration with the AWS ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 Icon 5/20/2026 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite MS mani s. data engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/25/2026 "AWS EMR: Efficient, Auto-Scaling Big Data Processing with Spark and ETL" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon EMR? I currently use Amazon EMR to run Spark ETL workloads and orchestrate large-scale data processing pipelines. EMR helps me execute jobs, optimize Spark performance, and analyze execution time. The best part is that it seamlessly integrates with S3 and Airflow, which I like the most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? I don’t have any major dislikes about Amazon EMR. Overall, it’s a good product and has worked well for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? It solves real problems. It helps handle distributed data-processing workloads efficiently using frameworks like Spark, and it reduces processing time for large ETL jobs through distributed computing. It also supports integration with services like S3 and Glue in an efficient way. Overall, it can reduce costs because it terminates after processing is complete. and i solves problems of managing cluster and infrasture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Chetan M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Chetan M.") CM Chetan M. Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/2/2026 "Fast, Easy Big Data Processing with Amazon EMR and AWS Integration" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon EMR? EMR helps us work with big data in a faster and easier way. The UI is simple for starting jobs, checking progress, and seeing what’s happening, including reviewing logs. It also works well with other AWS services like CloudWatch. On pricing, it can save money because we only use what we need instead of running everything all the time. Support and onboarding are straightforward; if you’re already using AWS, it’s ready to use. It also has smart features like scaling and tuning, which make it easier to manage. Gives good performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Amazon EMR is helpful, but it’s hard to learn at first. The screens and setup can feel confusing, and costs can go up if they aren’t managed correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps solve the problem of running large ETL jobs. It also helps process big data, scale when needed, and reduce effort and time, making data jobs run smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 IconCurrent UserValidated ReviewerSource: G2 invite ![Chaim and Liora S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Chaim and Liora S.") CS Chaim and Liora S. Senior Data Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/10/2026 "Simplifies Spark Jobs with Robust Performance" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon EMR? I like that Amazon EMR is easy to use, robust, and reliable. It's great that I don't have to worry about the infrastructure and the servers that my distributed load runs on. It's easy to copy my PySpark files onto the EMR cluster and run them. The auto-scaling feature is very helpful and having auto termination is convenient as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? Sometimes there are edge cases where we have problems with the cluster. Sometimes we lose our spot nodes, so jobs fail. It can be a bit difficult to debug these edge cases, and that requires opening a ticket with Amazon support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? I don't have to worry about infrastructure; auto-scaling and auto-termination make it easy to manage. Copying PySpark files and running them on the EMR cluster is straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 IconValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/28/2026 "Launch Spark or Hive in Minutes with Big S3-Backed Cost Savings" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon EMR? 1. Launch complex frameworks like Spark or Hive in minutes. 2. Keep data in cheap S3 storage and only pay for compute when needed. 3. Pricing up to save up to 90% on processing. 4. Built-in security feature is helpful. 5. UI is user-friendly and easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon EMR? 1. It can take several minutes.| 2. EMR sometimes runs slightly older versions of open-source tools compared to the very latest releases. 3. It still requires a good amount of technical knowledge to configure and optimize properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? 1. Manual server setup takes days - we can launch a production-ready big data cluster in minutes. 2. Hardware is expensive to buy and own - we can rent servers only when you need them and save up to 90% using Spot Instances. 3. One computer is too slow for massive data - It splits giant tasks across many servers to get results in hours instead of weeks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/30/2026 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Gayathri D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Gayathri D.") GD Gayathri D. Data Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/17/2026 "Easy EMR Job Testing with Clear, Accurate Error Logs" 5/5 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. What problems is Amazon EMR solving and how is that benefiting you? I was using EMR to run the job which is connecting from Postgres to test before running bulk job into state machine so that I can organize the jobs without failing in bulk on state machine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/8/2024 "Using emr from past 5 years" 4.5/5 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. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Raghwendra S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Raghwendra S.") RS Raghwendra S. SDE 4 Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/15/2023 "One stop compute solution to run all kinds of applications like apache spark , flink, trino" 5/5 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. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Gaurav M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Gaurav M.") GM Gaurav M. Data engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/3/2023 "Best On Cloud solution for big data" 4.5/5 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. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Pechi Muthu A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Pechi Muthu A.") PA Pechi Muthu A. Senior Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/3/2022 "Great Tool for Big Data Operations" 4.5/5 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. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Amazon EMR? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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