Data processing using Amazon EMR

Amazon EMR is a platform that enables big data processing at a scale. It’s a managed service that contains over 20 open source frameworks, including popular data processing engines such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Presto, and Trino. It was specifically created keeping in mind all the challenges we went through with a data processing platform.

There is so much information about EMR that a separate book exists that describes in detail each and every aspect of EMR. However, the purpose of this book is not to explain all of these aspects in detail but to understand when EMR can be used and which use cases it helps to solve. But let’s first get an overview of EMR.

Amazon EMR overview

EMR provides all the necessary tools that are required to process data at scale. EMR manages the underlying software and hardware needed to provide a cost-effective, scalable, and easy-to-manage data platform. The best way to get an overview of a service is...