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Using Amazon EMR built on AL2023 - Amazon Linux 2023

Using Amazon EMR built on AL2023

Amazon EMR is a web service that makes it easy to process vast amounts of data efficiently using Apache Hadoop and services offered by AWS.

AL2023 based Amazon EMR releases

Amazon EMR release 7.0.0 was the first release built on AL2023. With this release, AL2023 is the base operating system for Amazon EMR, bringing all the advantages of AL2023 to Amazon EMR. For more information, see the Amazon EMR 7.0.0 release notes.

AL2023 based Amazon EMR on EKS

Amazon EMR on EKS 6.13 was the first release introducing AL2023 as an option. With this release, you can launch Spark with AL2023 as the operating system, together with Java 17 runtime. For more information, see the Amazon EMR on EKS 6.13 release notes, and all Amazon EMR on EKS release notes.

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