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.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/migrate-to-apache-flink-2-2-on-amazon-managed-service-for-apache-flink/