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My chosen scaleable cloud platform
April 06, 2022

My chosen scaleable cloud platform

Nick Waters | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)

I use Amazon EMR (Elastic Map Reduce) as a scalable platform to deploy my client solutions onto. It allows me to scale our solution elastically in the cloud and allows us to deal with any data size, volume, or complexity. It is very easy to configure and scale and it is my preferred platform to deploy to.
  • Scalability
  • Costings
  • Flexibility
  • Costs
  • Auto-scale
  • Scaling
  • Costs
  • Flexibility
  • Costs can spiral out of control if not careful
  • Customers put off by costings
  • Competition from GCP
Amazon EMR (Elastic Map Reduce) compares well against GCP and Azure - but you need to be careful of the costs involved in spinning up such a cluster. It is easy to configure however and it is my preferred platform to deploy our solutions because of its ease of use.

Do you think Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) again?

Yes

Amazon EMR (Elastic Map Reduce) is ideally suited for organisations that need to provide a scalable platform for data processing. Amazon EMR is perfect to handle data volumes of any size or volume and it is easy to configure and spin up an EMR cluster quickly. If you are cost-focused you need to be careful as an EMR cluster can end up costing a lot of money if misconfigured.