What is Amazon EMR? All Questions › Category: Cloud Computing › What is Amazon EMR? 0 Vote Up Vote Down chetan shidling asked 4 years ago I need short information. 1 Answers 0 Vote Up Vote Down chetan shidling answered 4 years ago Amazon EMR means “Amazon Elastic MapReduce) is a service that quickly manages and cost-effectively processes a huge amount of data and it uses a Hadoop framework that will distribute data and start processing over amazon’s resizable clusters.