AWS Glue pricing against AWS EMR

Question

I am doing some pricing comparison between AWS Glue against AWS EMR so as to chose between EMR & Glue.

I have considered 6 DPUs (4 vCPUs + 16 GB Memory) with E

Answer 1

Yes, EMR does work out to be cheaper than Glue, and this is because Glue is meant to be serverless and fully managed by AWS, so the user doesn't have to worry about the infrastructure running behind the scenes, but EMR requires a whole lot of configuration to set up. So it's a trade off between user friendliness and cost, and for more technical users EMR can be the better option.