Posted On: Oct 14, 2021

HAQM EMR 6.4 release version now supports Apache Spark 3.1.2 and provides runtime improvements with HAQM EMR Runtime for Apache Spark. HAQM EMR 6.4 provides Presto runtime improvements for PrestoDB 0.254, and runtime improvements for Apache Hive 3.1.2 when you use AWS Glue Data Catalog for your metastore.

HAQM EMR 6.4 supports Apache Hudi 0.8.0, Trino 359, PrestoDB 0.254, Apache HBase 2.4.4, Apache Phoenix 5.1.2, Apache Flink 1.13.1, Apache Livy 0.7.1, JupyterHub 1.4.1, Apache Zookeeper 3.5.7 and Apache MXNet 1.8.0. Please see our release guide to learn more.

Starting HAQM EMR release versions 5.30 and 6.1 and later, you can now automatically terminate idle HAQM EMR clusters. This helps you to minimize costs without monitoring cluster activity. To get started, read our documentation here.

HAQM EMR Studio now supports multiple languages in the same Jupyter-based notebook forSpark workloads. Please see our documentation to learn more. You can now authenticate HAQMEMR Studio users using IAM-based authentication or IAM Federation, in addition to AWS SingleSign-On. You can learn more here.

HAQM EMR 6.4 includes Hudi 0.8.0, which allows you to use multiple applications to concurrently write to the same Hudi table. You can find more details on Hudi 0.8.0 features here. You can now report Hudi Metrics to HAQM CloudWatch, and set Hudi configurations at the cluster level using EMR Configurations API and the Reconfiguration feature.

HAQM EMR 6.4 now supports Spark SQL to write to and update Apache Hive metadata tableson Apache Ranger enabled HAQM EMR clusters. Please see our documentation to learn more.

Starting HAQM EMR release versions 5.7 and later, you can now create clusters with multiple custom HAQM Machine Images (AMIs). You can include both AWS Graviton and non-AWS Graviton instances in the same cluster. For more information, please read our documentation. HAQM EMR 6.4 is generally available in all regions where HAQM EMR is available. Please see Regional Availability of HAQM EMR and our release notes for more details.