I like that bootstrapping a cluster is so painless and quick Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Auto-scaling can be painful, especially when running Spark jobs that run the application master on core nodes and get killed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon EMR is best option for running resource heavy task. It is secure and easy to setup with its intuitive setup wizard in both basic and advanced mode.

We need to to worry about the cluster formation and handling, Leaving it to Amazon EMR we can concentrate on designing model to run on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much variety to chose from. EMR Clusters are not highly versatility. It comes with basic application setup like hadoop, spark, Hive etc. But we need to relive on Bootstrap action to download and install require applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its a fully managed service in Cloud to handle and Support Big data platform. Which is amazing that there is no need to handle complex configuration of Big data platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is none so far, and i am expecting to have more featuers added on this EMR Platform in terms of supporting machine learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flexibility and quick setup. Ease of installing custom tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Security features are not simple to configure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best for autoscaling, helps to spin clusers very fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unable to use custom AMI(Enterpise Images) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best way of transforming large volumes of non structured data, especially from S3 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Still miss something like Impala to do ad-hoc queries (although I know that I can use Athena for it) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

quick performance with the right configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

time to spin up and cost to keep up, even while not in use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great for batch usecases, quick and easy to learn, deploy. Reporting, monitoring, alerting ... everything is out of box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not cost effiecient, monolithic, requires thorough testing, bake in fault tolerance, reseliency ... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EMR is easy to use and helps you get started quickly with your ETL jobs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nothing. I actually enjoy what EMR offers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

good performance, ease of use and easy to spin cluster in EMR. Easy to integrate and build with terraform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

version constraints on components. It is really confusing to add components to the cluster coz of version constraints and its really hard to find good documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.