EMR clusters on emr-5.36 / 6.6 – 6.15 — support ends June 30, 2027

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Active Amazon EMR clusters on releases 5.36 or 6.6 – 6.15, whose free Extended Support ends June 30, 2027 (End of Life July 1, 2028)

What LeftSize checks

Find active Amazon EMR clusters on releases whose free Extended Support ends 2027-06-30.

Why it matters

Missed retirement and end-of-support dates turn into forced upgrades, outages or extended support charges at a moment you did not choose.

What you get in the GitHub issue

LeftSize runs this check from a scheduled GitHub Action with a read-only identity in your AWS account and opens one issue per scope, updated on every scan. The issue includes:

  • The affected resources, grouped per subscription, resource group or account and region
  • Background on why it was flagged and when it is a false positive
  • Cost and operational impact of fixing it
  • Alternative approaches and their trade-offs
  • Step-by-step remediation with safety checks
  • Ready-to-run fix scripts (CLI, PowerShell or Terraform where available)
  • Snooze, ignore or report a finding with a comment on the issue
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