Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) vs. Microsoft Azure

Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)

61 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Azure

1,010 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon EMR	Score8.1 out of 10	N/A	Amazon EMR is a cloud-native big data platform for processing vast amounts of data quickly, at scale. Using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi (Incubating), and Presto, coupled with the scalability of Amazon EC2 and scalable storage of Amazon S3, EMR gives analytical teams the engines and elasticity to run Petabyte-scale analysis.	N/A
Microsoft Azure	Score8.5 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.	$29 per month

Pricing

Amazon EMR

Microsoft Azure

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Developer: $29
per month
Standard: $100
per month
Professional Direct: $1000
per month
Basic: Free
per month

Pricing Offerings
Amazon EMR	Microsoft Azure
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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The free tier lets users have access to a variety of services free for 12 months with limited usage after making an Azure account.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon EMR	Microsoft Azure
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Verified User Chose Amazon EMR Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) compares well against Microsoft Azure and Microsoft SQL servers in terms of performance and ease of use. This also means you pay more for the service. Amazon EMR is a great tool for handling large amounts of data. SQL Server would be a better … Incentivized Helpful? Nick Waters Solutions Engineer in Sales at Datameer (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon EMR 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. Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Aditya Sabadra Application Consultant in Information Technology at Capgemini (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Azure AWS is competitor and it's leading in cloud space with his wide sprawl of offerings and services. AWS is a ocean once you login you get everything on one console. AWS leads this space with all his offerings and capabilities. But Azure is not behind, it is competing and is … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

Amazon EMR

Microsoft Azure

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) and Microsoft Azure
Feature	Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) - Ratings	Microsoft Azure 8.5 19 Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	00 Ratings	9.018 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	00 Ratings	8.018 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	00 Ratings	9.017 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	00 Ratings	8.017 Ratings
Monitoring tools	00 Ratings	8.418 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	00 Ratings	8.016 Ratings
Operating system support	00 Ratings	8.818 Ratings
Security controls	00 Ratings	9.018 Ratings
Automation	00 Ratings	8.016 Ratings

User Ratings
	Amazon EMR	Microsoft Azure
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (19 ratings)	8.8 (88 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (16 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (4 ratings)	9.4 (28 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	6.8 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (3 ratings)	8.1 (28 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (2 ratings)