Amazon EMR changelog
39 announcements since January 2025 · 4 GA · 1 price change · 1 deprecation · 1 Region expansion
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System-managed views allow only AWS Glue to write view data and definition
Interactive Spark sessions with Spark Connect from SageMaker Unified Studio, Jupyter and VS Code
Runs workloads on IPv6 EKS clusters, from emr-7.14.0 and emr-spark-8.0.0
Upgrades Spark to 3.5.8 and Iceberg to 1.10.1; Serverless Spark storage limit rises to 1 TiB
LTS releases get 36 months of support, starting with emr-spark-8.1.0 on Spark 4.1GA
Extended support at no extra cost for customers migrating off older releases, through 2027Deprecation