How to: EMR Basics
-	📒 [Homepage](https://aws.amazon.com/emr/) ∙ [Release guide](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticMapReduce/latest/ReleaseGuide/) ∙ [FAQ](https://aws.amazon.com/emr/faqs/) ∙ [Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/emr/pricing/)
-	**EMR** (which used to stand for Elastic Map Reduce, but not anymore, since it now extends beyond map-reduce) is a service that offers managed deployment of [Hadoop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Hadoop), [HBase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HBase) and [Spark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Spark). It reduces the management burden of setting up and maintaining these services yourself.

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