Manage maintenance tasks for Managed Service for Apache Flink

Managed Service for Apache Flink patches your applications periodically with operating-system and container-image security updates to maintain compliance and meet AWS security goals. A maintenance window for a Managed Service for Apache Flink application is a time window of 8 hours during which Managed Service for Apache Flink performs application maintenance activities on an application. The maintenance might begin on different days for different AWS Regions as scheduled by the service team. Consult the table in the following section for maintenance time windows.

As part of the maintenance procedure, your Managed Service for Apache Flink application will be restarted. This causes a downtime of 10 to 30 seconds during the application's maintenance window. The actual downtime duration depends on the application state, size, and snapshot/checkpoint recency. For information on how to minimize the impact of this downtime, see Fault tolerance: checkpoints and savepoints. You can find out if Managed Service for Apache Flink has performed a maintenance action on your application using the ListApplicationOperations API. For more information, see Identify when maintenance has ocurred on your application.

Choose a maintenance window

Managed Service for Apache Flink notifies you about upcoming planned maintenance events through email and AWS Health notifications. In Managed Service for Apache Flink, you can change the time of the day during which maintenance begins by using the UpdateApplicationMaintenanceConfiguration API and updating your maintenance window configuration. For more information, see UpdateApplicationMaintenanceConfiguration. Managed Service for Apache Flink uses the updated maintenance configuration the next time it schedules maintenance for the application. If you invoke this operation after the service has already scheduled maintenance, the service applies the configuration update the next time it schedules maintenance for the application.

Identify when maintenance has occurred on your application

You can find if Managed Service for Apache Flink has performed a maintenance action on your application by using the ListApplicationOperations API.

The following is an example request for ListApplicationOperations that can help you filter the list for maintenance on the application:

{
   "ApplicationName": "MyApplication",
   "operation": "ApplicationMaintenance"
}