It looks like you submit jobs to a queue and it spins up capacity to execute them. In that sense it's like EMR. However the jobs are a Docker image or a zip fil

It looks like you submit jobs to a queue and it spins up capacity to execute them. In that sense it's like EMR. However the jobs are a Docker image or a zip file with shell scripts. In that sense it's not like EMR. I haven't gotten far enough yet to see if it has any distributed compute support, or if each job runs on a single machine. EMR is designed for master/worker architectures with many workers. It looks like AWS Batch might be designed to run each job on a single machine.