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Big Data Processing with Spark, Hive, and Presto

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Amazon EMR - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: March 2026

Amazon EMR overview

What is Amazon EMR?

Amazon EMR is a big data analytics platform that makes it easy to quickly and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. With Amazon EMR, you can quickly launch an on-demand cluster with thousands of nodes, allowing you to scale up resources based on your application workload. It provides capabilities to store and analyze large amounts of data using Apache Hadoop, Presto, Spark, and other open-source frameworks.

Starting price


Amazon EMR’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Amazon EMR reviews

Overall rating

4.7

/5

3

Positive reviews

100

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend1.00/10
Rating distribution

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Amazon EMR's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Amazon EMR users:

Data connectors
High volume processing
Data visualization

All Amazon EMR features

Features rating:

Data connectors
Data extraction
Data transformation
Data visualization
High volume processing
Multiple data sources
Real-Time data
Visual analytics

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Amazon EMR integrations (9)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 3 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as Amazon EMR integrations and how users feel about them.

Integration rating: 5.0 (3)

Integration rating: 4.0 (2)

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Secondary offsite backup location for disaster recovery options.

DE

Daniel E.

Sr Systems Administrator

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Amazon VPC

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

vpc is where EMR resides for networking

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vidya p.

Cloud Engineer

Amazon EMR support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Chat

Amazon EMR FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of Amazon EMR?

Amazon EMR has the following typical customers:
Small Business

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Q. What level of support does Amazon EMR offer?

Amazon EMR offers the following support options:
Chat

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