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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...