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Amazon EMR adds 36-month support releases for Apache Spark workloads

AWS introduced long-term-support releases for Amazon EMR, beginning with emr-spark-8.1.0 and Apache Spark 4.1. Designated runtime versions will receive fixes for critical and high-severity security, software and data-corruption problems for 36 months at no additional cost. The release also supports Apache Iceberg v3, named and cross-account catalogs, broader fine-grained permissions and token-authenticated Spark Connect endpoints on EMR on EKS. It is available across EMR on EC2, EKS and Serverless in every AWS Region offering EMR, although fixes remain subject to availability.
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