Amazon EMR Gives You Extra Time to Upgrade—For Free

Amazon EMR now extends support for older releases at no extra cost, so you can migrate at your own pace. Releases 5.36 and 6.6-6.15 get critical security fixes through June 2027, while 7.0-7.10 get Standard Support through August 2027—across all AWS Regions and deployment models (EC2, EKS, Serverless).