5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Amazon EMR first-hand: 3 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Using S3 with EMR in production was breeze for us.”
endorse · production · morazow · 2016-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“EMR is amazing but the cost overhead when using it on spot instances is ~100%.”
mixed · production · Smerity · 2014-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Running EMR jobs on cc2.8xlarge machines as spot instances is a great way to get a LOT of computer power very cheaply.”
endorse · production · vosper · 2013-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated our index build process over to using Elastic Map Reduce on spot-priced servers and it's been a huge cost savings.”
endorse · production · trimbo · 2013-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Elastic MapReduce at Snowplow to validate and enrich raw user events”
neutral · production · alexatkeplar · 2013-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?