We are excited to announce support for Apache Spark with Java 17 in EMR on EKS. AWS customers can now leverage Java 17 as a supported Java runtime to run Spark workloads on Amazon EMR on EKS, and benefit from Java 17’s language enhancement and performance improvement. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS.
Source:: Amazon AWS