Migrating to Apache Flink 2.2 on Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink gives you access to Java 17 runtime, faster checkpoints and recovery through RocksDB 8.10.0, and SQL-native artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) inference. If you run Flink 1.x today, you might be dealing with an aging Java 11 runtime that will no longer receive standard support by the end of this year, slower state backend performance, and a fragmented API surface split across DataSet, DataStream, and legacy connector interfaces. Flink 2.2 addresses these gaps in a single major version upgrade.
Apache Flink is an open source distributed processing engine for stream and batch data, with first-class support for stateful processing and event-time semantics. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink removes the operational overhead of running Flink. You provide your application code, and the service provisions, scales, checkpoints, and patches the infrastructure for you.
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