Amazon EMR extends support at no additional cost for customers migrating off older releases, providing critical security fixes and extended Standard Support through mid-2027.

<div><p>Amazon EMR extends support at no additional cost for customers migrating off older releases before they reach end of support.</p><ul><li>Critical security fixes for releases 5.36 and 6.6-6.15 through June 30, 2027 on best-effort basis</li><li>Extended Standard Support for releases 7.0-7.10 through August 31, 2027</li><li>No opt-in required; support applies automatically to eligible releases</li><li>Applies to all EMR deployment models: EC2, EKS, and Serverless</li><li>Contact AWS Support with migration plan to receive extension</li><li>Apache Spark Upgrade Agent available to assist with application migration</li></ul><p>This initiative gives customers additional time to plan and execute migrations to current EMR releases without incurring extra costs.</p></div>


Amazon EMR extends support at no additional cost for customers migrating off older releases

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