@Simon Elliston Ball @Rahul P Technically yes, it can be installed on CDH and MapR. Not so sure about EMR as I don't know how much customizable EMR is. But I'd say things will be easy once Metron 1.0 is out. My team is currently struggling to keep the Metron cluster healthy and highly available (we are using v0.4x). Once we see stable version coming out, and also more importantly we figure out how it integrates with Elastic and Storm (currently Mpack takes care of all this), then it would be ready for porting to other Hadoop distributions. We do have plans of doing that but don't want to jump and waste time doing it now. We are ok developing our solution on HDP for now. Hope this helps. I will try to keep us posted on when and how we do it. ... View more