AWS EMR

AWS EMR (Elastic MapReduce) is a cloud-native big data processing service that simplifies running large-scale data analytics frameworks like Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto. It allows users to process vast amounts of data quickly and cost-effectively by providing managed…

Key facts

First appeared: 2009
Category: technology
Problem solved: AWS EMR was created to solve the significant operational burden, infrastructure complexity, and cost inefficiencies associated with setting up, managing, and scaling big data processing clusters (like Apache Hadoop) on-premises or manually on cloud virtual machines.
Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud

Related technologies

Apache Spark
AWS Glue Catalog
Amazon EC2
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon S3
Amazon Athena
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Redshift
Apache Hadoop
AWS Lambda
Presto
Apache Flink
Apache Hive

Notable users

T-Mobile
Capital One
Expedia
Netflix
Pfizer
Thomson Reuters