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AWS emr: Custom images now supported with Lake Formation on EMR 7.14.0+

Service: emr · 2026-09-27 · Documentation low

File: emr/latest/EMR-Serverless-UserGuide/emr-serverless-lf-enable-considerations.md

Summary

Updates the Lake Formation enablement considerations to note that starting with Amazon EMR 7.14.0 (and emr-spark-8.1.0), Lake Formation-enabled applications support custom EMR Serverless images, whereas earlier releases do not.

Security assessment

The change documents a feature-compatibility update (custom images with Lake Formation) rather than a vulnerability fix or new security control; it is only tangentially related to the Lake Formation authorization feature.

Evidence

+  * Starting with Amazon EMR 7.14.0, Lake Formation-enabled applications support the use of [custom EMR Serverless images](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/EMR-Serverless-UserGuide/application-custom-image.html). This support also applies to the AWS runtime for Apache Spark 8.x release line beginning with `emr-spark-8.1.0`. Custom images with Lake Formation aren’t supported on Amazon EMR 7.13.0 and earlier releases, or on `emr-spark-8.0.0`.

Diff

diff --git a/emr/latest/EMR-Serverless-UserGuide/emr-serverless-lf-enable-considerations.md b/emr/latest/EMR-Serverless-UserGuide/emr-serverless-lf-enable-considerations.md
index 28d2903f7..adef98fd9 100644
--- a//emr/latest/EMR-Serverless-UserGuide/emr-serverless-lf-enable-considerations.md
+++ b//emr/latest/EMR-Serverless-UserGuide/emr-serverless-lf-enable-considerations.md
@@ -24 +24 @@ When you enable Lake Formation for a Spark job on EMR Serverless, the job launch
-  * Lake Formation-enabled applications don’t support usage of [ customized EMR Serverless images](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/EMR-Serverless-UserGuide/application-custom-image.html).
+  * Starting with Amazon EMR 7.14.0, Lake Formation-enabled applications support the use of [custom EMR Serverless images](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/EMR-Serverless-UserGuide/application-custom-image.html). This support also applies to the AWS runtime for Apache Spark 8.x release line beginning with `emr-spark-8.1.0`. Custom images with Lake Formation aren’t supported on Amazon EMR 7.13.0 and earlier releases, or on `emr-spark-8.0.0`.