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Amazon EMR introduces LTS releases starting with Spark 4.1 (emr-spark-8.1.0)
- Platform/SRE — Plan: Teams running EMR on EKS should evaluate migrating production Spark workloads to emr-spark-8.1.0 to take advantage of the new 36-month LTS support window, reducing forced upgrade pressure; no hard deadline exists yet.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Plan: EMR LTS changes the upgrade economics for data platform teams — evaluate standardizing on LTS releases to extend support cycles and reduce upgrade toil as part of the next data platform planning cycle.
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