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AWS emr documentation change

Service: emr · 2025-12-07 · Documentation low

File: emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-spark-upgrade-agent-using.md

Summary

Updated version references and added explicit EMR Serverless execution role requirement in command examples

Security assessment

While not addressing a specific security issue, the addition of explicit execution role requirements promotes least-privilege access practices, which is a security best practice.

Diff

diff --git a/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-spark-upgrade-agent-using.md b/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-spark-upgrade-agent-using.md
index e530438ea..6e7d39de3 100644
--- a//emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-spark-upgrade-agent-using.md
+++ b//emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-spark-upgrade-agent-using.md
@@ -33 +33 @@ A demonstration of the EMR on EC2 upgrade experience with SMUS VS code editor. I
-    Upgrade my Spark application <local-project-path> from 2.4 to 3.5.   
+    Upgrade my Spark application <local-project-path> from EMR version 6.0.0 to 7.12.0.   
@@ -35 +35 @@ A demonstration of the EMR on EC2 upgrade experience with SMUS VS code editor. I
-    s3://<s3-staging-path> to store updated application artifacts.   
+    s3://<please fill in your staging bucket path> to store updated application artifacts.   
@@ -54,3 +54,3 @@ A demonstration of the EMR Serverless upgrade experience with Kiro CLI. You can
-    Upgrade my Spark application <local-project-path> from 2.4 to 3.5.   
-    Use EMR-Serverless Applicaion <application-id> to run the validation and s3 paths   
-    s3://<s3-staging-path> to store updated application artifacts.
+    Upgrade my Spark application <local-project-path> from EMR version 6.0.0 to 7.12.0.   
+    Use EMR-Serverless Applicaion <application-id> and execution role <your EMR Serverless job execution role> to run the validation and s3 paths   
+    s3://<please fill in your staging bucket path> to store updated application artifacts.