A team wants managed Apache Spark and Hadoop clusters for large-scale data processing. Which AWS service is designed for this?
A.Amazon EMR
Correct. EMR is the managed Hadoop/Spark platform.
B.Amazon Redshift
Redshift is an MPP data warehouse for SQL analytics, not a framework cluster.
C.AWS Glue
Glue runs Spark under the hood but is serverless ETL — no cluster control.
D.Amazon Athena
Athena is a query service, not a processing framework.
Why this answer
EMR (Elastic MapReduce) runs managed big-data frameworks — Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Presto — on EC2 or containers. Redshift is a data warehouse; Glue is serverless ETL; Athena is serverless SQL on S3.
Correct answer: A · Last reviewed 2026-11-01
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