[update]

I have raised a PR[1] for the changes.

The change doesn't affect any other changes to S3 connectors.

Bests,
Samrat
[1] https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/29159

On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 3:29 PM Samrat Deb <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you @[email protected] <[email protected]>
>
> Yes, This totally aligned with making native-s3-fs mainline along with
> existing connectors.
> Looking forward to hearing from the community to move forward.
>
> Bests,
> Samrat
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 2:22 PM Gabor Somogyi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey Samrat,
>>
>> +1 to promote in short.
>>
>> I personally think that one to one feature parity was not a target.
>> Hadoop is a general purpose FS with huge amount of tuning possibilities
>> however the new native S3 connector is specific to our Flink needs
>> with smaller amount of tuning.
>>
>> The feature set which allows users to use it in production is there
>> both from data processing and checkpointing perspective.
>> It's used in many production pipelines already so from my point of view
>> we can promote it as the preferred way. It's important to say it out
>> that the old connectors must remain from code and documentation
>> perspective but as a fallback if something can't be done with the new
>> native s3 connector.
>>
>> After the promotion we should gather experience from the community, fill
>> those
>> gaps if there are, fix bugs and that is going to allow us to sunset the
>> old
>> connectors. I'm pretty sure that won't be lightning fast since we should
>> allow everybody time to do the migration and express the missing
>> parts/bugfixes.
>>
>> Happy to hear other voices.
>>
>> BR,
>> G
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2026 at 7:25 AM Samrat Deb <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > flink-s3-fs-native (the AWS-SDK-v2, Hadoop-free S3 filesystem for s3://
>> and
>> > s3a://) landed experimentally in Flink 2.3[1]. Since then, the [Phase 2]
>> > Native S3 Filesystem FLINK-39109 [2] has closed 19 subtasks, closing the
>> > feature gap compared to flink-s3-fs-hadoop or flink-s3-fs-presto.
>> >
>> > Proposal
>> >
>> > 1. promote NativeS3FileSystem from Experimental to mainstream in an
>> > upcoming 2.4 release[3]. What is the community view and overall
>> consensus?
>> >
>> > 2. If you run flink-s3-fs-hadoop or flink-s3-fs-presto in production,
>> > please reply with anything you rely on that flink-s3-fs-native doesn't
>> > cover yet. I've checked all three plugins' sources for the above, but
>> > deployment-specific setups (custom credential providers, particular
>> > S3-compatible endpoints, etc.) may surface gaps I've missed.
>> >
>> > Bests,
>> > Samrat
>> >
>> > [1]
>> >
>> >
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/FLINK/pages/396790457/FLIP-555+Flink+Native+S3+FileSystem
>> > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-39109
>> > [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/14vym623dh08rry7jsxj2sm6ty4m6cho
>> >
>>
>

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