# AWS adds portable application snapshots to managed Flink

_Published Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 5:31 PM EST · Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

AWS says its managed Apache Flink service now lets customers capture, export and restore application state across applications and AWS Regions. The enhanced snapshots support migrations from self-managed workloads, parallel deployments of application updates and backups in a secondary Region.

Customers can start a second application from a snapshot without pausing processing, or import a self-managed Flink savepoint. For regional recovery, they can export state to Amazon S3 and replicate it to another Region.

The feature supports Flink 1.20 and later wherever the managed service operates except European Sovereign Cloud in Germany. Snapshot storage is charged per GB-month.

## Sources

- [Recent Announcements](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/managed-flink-enhanced-snapshots/)

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