Posted On: Sep 13, 2023
We are excited to announce support for HAQM Linux 2023 (AL2023) on HAQM EMR on EKS. Customers can now use AL2023 as the operating system together with Java 17 as Java runtime to run Spark workloads on HAQM EMR on EKS. This provides customers a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run their applications as well as enables them to access the latest enhancements such as kernel, toolchain, glibc, openssl and other system libraries and utilities.
Previously, customers could only run their Spark jobs on HAQM EMR on EKS with HAQM Linux 2 (AL2) as the operating system. Now, with this launch, HAQM EMR on EKS supports AL2023 as an operating system, which offers several improvements over AL2 such as supporting Python 3.9 by default, the GNU C Library (glibc) is upgraded to 2.34 in AL2023, GNU Compiler Collection (gcc) is upgraded to 11.3, and more. For a complete list of the difference between AL2 and AL2023, please visit AL2023 user guide.
To learn more about this feature, please visit our release documentation. HAQM Linux 2023 is supported on HAQM EMR on EKS release version 6.13 release and later, and available in all regions where HAQM EMR on EKS is currently available.