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    Realtime Compute for Apache Flink:Service types

    Last Updated:Nov 16, 2023

    Before you purchase Realtime Compute for Apache Flink, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the features offered by each service type. This way, you can select instances that fit your business requirements. This topic describes the service types of Realtime Compute for Apache Flink and the release status of each service type. This topic also provides suggestions on how to select a service type based on your business requirements.

    Service types

    Service type

    Deployment mode

    Compute engine

    Development platform

    Fully managed Flink

    Kubernetes-based deployment

    VVR

    Enterprise-level development and O&M platform

    Semi-managed Flink (EMR-based)

    Note

    A Realtime Compute for Apache Flink cluster of this service type is a Dataflow cluster that runs on Alibaba Cloud E-MapReduce (EMR). For more information, see Overview.

    YARN-based deployment

    VVR

    Custom deployment

    Blink exclusive cluster (original product line)

    YARN-based deployment

    Blink

    Bayes

    Release status

    Note

    For more information about the definition of the service release status, see Lifecycle policies.

    Service type

    Release status

    EOM1

    EOM2

    EOFS

    EOS

    Fully managed Flink

    GA

    N/A

    N/A

    N/A

    N/A

    Semi-managed Flink (EMR-based)

    GA

    N/A

    N/A

    N/A

    N/A

    Blink exclusive cluster (original product line)

    EOM2

    April 28, 2021

    November 15, 2022

    March 30, 2023

    July 30, 2023

    Selection suggestions

    Service type

    Suggestion

    Fully managed Flink

    If your company or team wants to focus on business development without the need to spend extra time on cluster O&M, we recommend that you use this service type.

    Semi-managed Flink (EMR-based)

    If your company or team wants to gain full control over all cluster resources during business development and is familiar with YARN or Alibaba Cloud EMR, we recommend that you use this service type.

    Blink exclusive cluster (original product line)

    Blink exclusive clusters (original product line) cannot be purchased from April 28, 2021 and entered the EOM1 phase. For more information, see Announcements.

    Important

    You can no longer purchase Blink exclusive clusters. However, you can still scale your Blink exclusive clusters. If you want to purchase Realtime Compute for Apache Flink, we recommend that you purchase the fully managed Flink service type.