Document history
The following table describes the important changes to the documentation since the initial release of Amazon Batch. We also update the documentation frequently to address the feedback that you send us.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Updated the Amazon EKS versions that Amazon Batch supports to remove version 1.22. | March 11, 2024 | |
Updated the Amazon EKS versions that Amazon Batch supports to include version 1.29. | February 29, 2024 | |
Corrected the code sample. | February 29, 2024 | |
Adds support for multi-container jobs for Amazon Batch for Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and Amazon Fargate. | February 28, 2024 | |
Updated the Amazon EKS versions that Amazon Batch supports to include version 1.28 | January 27, 2024 | |
| December 5, 2023 | |
Amazon Batch adds support for running jobs on Amazon EKS clusters. | October 25, 2022 | |
Amazon Batch now provides a workaround for the confused deputy security issue, which arises when an entity (a service or an account) is coerced by a different entity to perform an action. | June 6, 2022 | |
Added support for configuring interface VPC endpoints powered by Amazon PrivateLink. This means you can create a private connection between your VPC and Amazon Batch without requiring access through a NAT instance, a VPN connection, or Amazon Direct Connect. | April 15, 2022 | |
Amazon Batch enhanced support updates to compute environments. | April 14, 2022 | |
Amazon Batch updated existing managed policies. | December 6, 2021 | |
Amazon Batch adds support for adding scheduling policies to job queues. | November 9, 2021 | |
Amazon Batch adds support for adding Amazon EFS file systems to your job definitions. | April 1, 2021 | |
Amazon Batch adds the AWSServiceRoleForBatch service-linked role. | March 10, 2021 | |
Amazon Batch adds support for running jobs on Fargate resources. | December 3, 2020 | |
Amazon Batch adds support for automatic selection of Amazon Linux 2 AMIs in the compute environment using the EC2 Configuration parameters. | November 24, 2020 | |
Amazon Batch enhances the retry strategy for jobs. Now jobs can be retried or stop further retries by matching the
| October 20, 2020 | |
Amazon Batch adds support for adding metadata tags to your compute environments, job definitions, job queues, and jobs. | October 7, 2020 | |
Amazon Batch adds support for passing secrets to jobs. | October 1, 2020 | |
Amazon Batch adds support for specifying additional log drivers for jobs. | October 1, 2020 | |
Amazon Batch adds support for multiple strategies to choose instance types. | October 16, 2019 | |
Amazon Batch adds support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) devices. | August 2, 2019 | |
Amazon Batch adds GPU scheduling. With this feature, you can specify the number of GPUs each job requires, and Amazon Batch scales up instances accordingly. | April 4, 2019 | |
Amazon Batch adds support for multi-node parallel jobs. You can use this feature run single jobs that span over multiple Amazon EC2 instances. | November 19, 2018 | |
Amazon Batch supports resource-level permissions on several API operations. | November 12, 2018 | |
Amazon Batch adds support for using launch templates with compute environments. | November 12, 2018 | |
Amazon Batch adds support for job timeout. With this support, you can configure a specific timeout duration for your jobs so that if a job runs longer than they should, Amazon Batch terminates the job. | April 5, 2018 | |
Amazon Batch jobs are made available as EventBridge targets. By creating simple rules, you can match events and submit Amazon Batch jobs in response to them. | March 1, 2018 | |
CloudTrail can audit calls made to Amazon Batch API actions. | January 10, 2018 | |
Amazon Batch adds support for array jobs. You can use array jobs for parameter sweep and Monte Carlo workloads. | November 28, 2017 | |
Amazon Batch expands support for the tagging function. You can use this function to specify tags for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances launched within managed compute environments. | October 26, 2017 | |
Amazon Batch adds the event stream for EventBridge. You can use Amazon Batch event stream to receive near real-time notifications regarding the state of jobs that are submitted to your job queues. | October 24, 2017 | |
Amazon Batch adds support for job retries. With this update, you can apply a retry strategy to your jobs and job definitions that allows your jobs to be automatically retried if they fail. | March 28, 2017 | |
Amazon Batch general availability | Amazon Batch is introduced, designed as a means for you to run batch computing workloads on the Amazon Web Services Cloud. | January 5, 2017 |