Posted On: Mar 2, 2015

We are pleased to announce that HAQM EMR has lowered prices for current supported instance types and added support for the C3, R3, and I2 instance families in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.

HAQM EMR simplifies big data processing, providing a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective for you to distribute and process vast amounts of your data across dynamically scalable HAQM EC2 instances. You can also run other popular distributed frameworks such as Spark and Presto in HAQM EMR, and interact with data in other AWS data stores such as HAQM S3 and HAQM DynamoDB.

HAQM EMR securely and reliably handles your big data use cases, including log analysis, web indexing, data warehousing, machine learning, financial analysis, scientific simulation, and bioinformatics. Learn more about HAQM EMR.