# 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](/emr/latest/ManagementGuide/): Describes key concepts of Amazon EMR and provides instructions for using the service.
- [Release Guide](/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/): Provides information about Amazon EMR releases, including installed cluster software such as Hadoop and Spark.
- [API Reference](/emr/latest/APIReference/): Describes the Amazon EMR API operations, including sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.

## 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](/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.
- [API Reference](/emr-on-eks/latest/APIReference/): Describes the Amazon EMR on EKS API operations, including sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.

## Amazon EMR Serverless

Run big data analytics applications on the Amazon Web Services Cloud using open source frameworks while letting Amazon EMR Serverless configure, optimize, secure, and manage clusters for you.

- [User Guide](/emr/latest/EMR-Serverless-UserGuide/index.html): Describes key concepts of Amazon EMR Serverless and provides instructions for running serverless big data workloads.
- [API Reference](/emr-serverless/latest/APIReference/): Describes the Amazon EMR Serverless API operations, including sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.

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