Document history - AWS Batch

Document history

The following table describes the important changes to the documentation since the initial release of AWS Batch. We also update the documentation frequently to address the feedback that you send us.

ChangeDescriptionDate

Updated AWS Batch supported Amazon EKS versions

Updated the Amazon EKS versions that AWS Batch supports to remove version 1.22.

March 11, 2024

Updated AWS Batch supported Amazon EKS versions

Updated the Amazon EKS versions that AWS Batch supports to include version 1.29.

February 29, 2024

Automated job retries

Corrected the code sample.

February 29, 2024

Adds support for multi-container jobs for AWS Batch

Adds support for multi-container jobs for AWS Batch for Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and AWS Fargate.

February 28, 2024

Updated AWS Batch supported Amazon EKS versions

Updated the Amazon EKS versions that AWS Batch supports to include version 1.28

January 27, 2024

Updated BatchServiceRolePolicy and AWSBatchServiceRole

BatchServiceRolePolicy

Updated to add support for describing Spot Fleet request history and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling activities.

AWSBatchServiceRole

Updated to add statement IDs, grant AWS Batch permissions to ec2:DescribeSpotFleetRequestHistory and autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities.

December 5, 2023

AWS Batch on Amazon EKS

AWS Batch adds support for running jobs on Amazon EKS clusters.

October 25, 2022

Cross-service confused deputy prevention for AWS Batch

AWS 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

Interface VPC Endpoints (AWS PrivateLink)

Added support for configuring interface VPC endpoints powered by AWS PrivateLink. This means you can create a private connection between your VPC and AWS Batch without requiring access through a NAT instance, a VPN connection, or AWS Direct Connect.

April 15, 2022

Enhanced compute environment updates

AWS Batch enhanced support updates to compute environments.

April 14, 2022

AWS managed policy updates - Update to existing policies

AWS Batch updated existing managed policies.

December 6, 2021

Fair share scheduling

AWS Batch adds support for adding scheduling policies to job queues.

November 9, 2021

Amazon EFS

AWS Batch adds support for adding Amazon EFS file systems to your job definitions.

April 1, 2021

Added service-linked role

AWS Batch adds the AWSServiceRoleForBatch service-linked role.

March 10, 2021

AWS Fargate support

AWS Batch adds support for running jobs on Fargate resources.

December 3, 2020

Resource tagging

AWS Batch adds support for adding metadata tags to your compute environments, job definitions, job queues, and jobs.

October 7, 2020

Secrets

AWS Batch adds support for passing secrets to jobs.

October 1, 2020

Logging

AWS Batch adds support for specifying additional log drivers for jobs.

October 1, 2020

Allocation strategies

AWS Batch adds support for multiple strategies to choose instance types.

October 16, 2019

EFA support

AWS Batch adds support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) devices.

August 2, 2019

GPU scheduling

AWS Batch adds GPU scheduling. With this feature, you can specify the number of GPUs each job requires, and AWS Batch scales up instances accordingly.

April 4, 2019

Multi-node parallel jobs

AWS 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

Resource-level permissions

AWS Batch supports resource-level permissions on several API operations.

November 12, 2018

Amazon EC2 Launch template support

AWS Batch adds support for using launch templates with compute environments.

November 12, 2018

AWS Batch job timeouts

AWS 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, AWS Batch terminates the job.

April 5, 2018

AWS Batch jobs as EventBridge targets

AWS Batch jobs are made available as EventBridge targets. By creating simple rules, you can match events and submit AWS Batch jobs in response to them.

March 1, 2018

CloudTrail auditing for AWS Batch

CloudTrail can audit calls made to AWS Batch API actions.

January 10, 2018

Array jobs

AWS Batch adds support for array jobs. You can use array jobs for parameter sweep and Monte Carlo workloads.

November 28, 2017

Expanded AWS Batch tagging

AWS 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

AWS Batch event stream for EventBridge

AWS Batch adds the event stream for EventBridge. You can use AWS Batch event stream to receive near real-time notifications regarding the state of jobs that are submitted to your job queues.

October 24, 2017

Automated job retries

AWS 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

AWS Batch general availability

AWS Batch is introduced, designed as a means for you to run batch computing workloads on the AWS Cloud.

January 5, 2017