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Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink introduces enhanced snapshots

Published
November 12, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/managed-flink-enhanced-snapshots/

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports enhanced snapshots, a capability that lets you capture, export, and restore application state across Apache Flink applications and AWS Regions. This feature enables blue/green deployments, migration of self-managed workloads without losing state, and cross-Region recovery.

What to do

  • Create an enhanced snapshot from an application to deploy an update without pausing processing.
  • Import an Apache Flink savepoint as an enhanced snapshot to migrate a self-managed workload.
  • Export an enhanced snapshot to an Amazon S3 bucket and replicate the exported state to a bucket in a secondary Region for cross-Region recovery.

Enhanced snapshots are available for applications on Apache Flink 1.20 and later in all AWS Regions except European Sovereign Cloud (Germany). You pay for enhanced snapshot storage per GB-month as durable application backups.

Source: AWS release notes




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