Amazon EMR support for new instance families and price reduction in AWS GovCloud (US) region
We are pleased to announce that Amazon 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.
Amazon 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 Amazon EC2 instances. You can also run other popular distributed frameworks such as Spark and Presto in Amazon EMR, and interact with data in other AWS data stores such as Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB.
Amazon 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 Amazon EMR.