EMR

• EMR stands for “Elastic MapReduce”

• EMR helps creating Hadoop clusters (Big Data) to analyze and process vast amount of data

• The clusters can be made of hundreds of EC2 instances

• Also supports Apache Spark, HBase, Presto, Flink...

• EMR takes care of all the provisioning and configuration

• Auto-scaling and integrated with Spot instances

• Use cases: data processing, machine learning, web indexing, big data...