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Amazon EMR 7.14 is now available

Amazon EMR 7.14 delivers new features and application upgrades across EC2, EKS, and Serverless platforms, including performance improvements for Spark and Iceberg and increased storage limits for Spark jobs.

Amazon EMR 7.14 is now available, featuring new capabilities and application updates for Amazon EMR on EC2, Amazon EMR on EKS, and Amazon EMR Serverless. Apache Spark has been upgraded to 3.5.8 and Apache Iceberg to 1.10.1, with materialized views now using change data capture to read only data files affected by updates or deletes, improving refresh speeds. Amazon EMR on EKS now supports interactive Spark sessions with token-based authentication and running workloads on IPv6 Amazon EKS clusters. Amazon EMR Serverless increases the storage limit for Spark jobs from 200 GiB to 1 TiB, boosting shuffle data capacity. Amazon EMR 7.14 is available in all AWS regions where Amazon EMR is offered.

Why it matters

For users performing data processing and big data analytics. The new Amazon EMR version enhances functionality across multiple platforms with improved processing speeds and expanded resource limits.

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