AWS emr: EMR support lifecycle: add Long Term Support section and dates
Summary
Updates the EMR Standard Support page: adds a new "Long Term Support" section (36 months of support with fixes for critical and high severity security, bug, and data-corruption issues, direct transition to End of Life), renames the reference to the "Support Lifecycle" table, adds 7.14 and emr-spark-8.1 [LTS] lifecycle rows, and drops the qualifier that extended support for releases 5.36 and 6.6–6.15 is "best-effort, limited to critical security fixes only."
Security assessment
The added Long Term Support section documents the security-patch commitment (critical/high severity security fixes) and lifecycle expectations for designated Apache Spark runtime versions, which is security-adjacent guidance rather than a fix for a specific weakness. Relatedly, the diff removes the phrase "limited to critical security fixes only" for EMR 5.36 and 6.6–6.15, slightly reducing transparency about patch coverage on those older releases, but no vulnerability, CVE, or exposure is described.
Evidence
+Designated versions of the AWS runtime for Apache Spark receive 36 months of support. Amazon EMR provides fixes for critical and high severity security, bug, and data-corruption issues, subject to availability.
Diff
diff --git a/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-standard-support.md b/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-standard-support.md index 77d4fa9f7..490dfdd3e 100644 --- a//emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-standard-support.md +++ b//emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-standard-support.md @@ -78 +78 @@ AWS announced the Standard Support policy on July 25, 2024. Under this policy, v -Effective August 31, 2026, if you're actively migrating, AWS provides additional time to complete your migration to a supported release at no additional cost. This extension applies to the selected releases listed in the following table. To receive this extension, contact AWS Support and file a ticket with your migration plan and any help you need with the upgrade. +Effective August 31, 2026, if you're actively migrating, AWS provides additional time to complete your migration to a supported release at no additional cost. This extension applies to the selected releases listed in the Support Lifecycle table below. To receive this extension, contact AWS Support and file a ticket with your migration plan and any help you need with the upgrade. @@ -80 +80 @@ Effective August 31, 2026, if you're actively migrating, AWS provides additional -For Amazon EMR release versions 5.36 and 6.6 through 6.15, Amazon EMR extends support on a best-effort basis, limited to critical security fixes only, through June 30, 2027. +For Amazon EMR release versions 5.36 and 6.6 through 6.15, Amazon EMR extends support through June 30, 2027. @@ -84 +84,9 @@ Amazon EMR release versions 5.35 and lower, and 6.5 and lower, do not receive Ex -For Amazon EMR release versions 7.0 through 7.10, Amazon EMR extends Standard Support in full through the dates listed in the following table. +For Amazon EMR release versions 7.0 through 7.10, Amazon EMR extends Standard Support in full through the dates listed in the Support Lifecycle table below. + +### Long Term Support + +Designated versions of the AWS runtime for Apache Spark receive 36 months of support. Amazon EMR provides fixes for critical and high severity security, bug, and data-corruption issues, subject to availability. + +When the support period ends, Long Term Support releases transition directly to End of Life, with no separate End of Support stage. + +### Support Lifecycle @@ -157,0 +166 @@ Amazon EMR release version | Initial release date | Standard support end date | +7.14| September 8, 2026| September 8, 2028| N/A| September 9, 2028| September 8, 2029 @@ -158,0 +168 @@ emr-spark-8.0| May 21, 2026| May 20, 2028| N/A| May 21, 2028| May 21, 2029 +emr-spark-8.1 [LTS]| September 8, 2026| September 7, 2029| N/A| September 8, 2029| September 8, 2029