Amazon EMR (formerly Elastic MapReduce) is a managed cluster platform that simplifies running big data frameworks, such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, on AWS to process and analyze vast amounts of data. Using these frameworks and related open-source projects, you can process data for analytics purposes and business intelligence workloads.
Brand Authority Index (BAI): 94/100
Archetype: Challenger
Category: Cloud Computing
Part of: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Last analyzed: April 10, 2026
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: Seattle, WA