# Amazon EMR Documentation

Amazon EMR is a web service that makes it easy to process vast amounts of data efficiently using Apache Hadoop and services offered by Amazon Web Services.

## Amazon EMR running on Amazon EC2

Process and analyze data for machine learning, scientific simulation, data mining, web indexing, log file analysis, and data warehousing.

- [Management Guide](/en_us/emr/latest/ManagementGuide/): Describes key concepts of Amazon EMR and provides instructions for using the service.
- [Release Guide](/en_us/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/): Provides information about Amazon EMR releases, including installed cluster software such as Hadoop and Spark.

## Amazon EMR on EKS

Run big data workloads natively on the Amazon Web Services Cloud while Amazon EMR on EKS builds, configures, and manages containers for your open source applications.

- [Development Guide](/en_us/emr/latest/EMR-on-EKS-DevelopmentGuide/index.html): Describes key concepts of Amazon EMR on EKS and provides instructions for running big data workloads on managed containers.

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