Elastic MapReduce

Solution Architect Associate

AWS Documentation

• Managed big data platform that allows you to process vast amounts of data using open source tools like Spark, HBase, Hudi, etc. Essentially ETL in the cloud
  • ETL - Extract, Transform, Load
• EMR runs in clusters, generally runs on either EC2, EKS or Outposts
• Transformed data is stored in S3
• You can use reserved instances and spot instances to save money
• Instances always live in a VPC

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