Introducing AWS Glue 5.0 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Posted on: Dec 17, 2024

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Glue 5.0 in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). With AWS Glue 5.0, you get improved performance, enhanced security, and more. AWS Glue 5.0 enables you to develop, run, and scale your data integration workloads and get insights faster.

AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. AWS Glue 5.0 upgrades the engines to Apache Spark 3.5.2, Python 3.11, and Java 17, with new performance and security improvements. Glue 5.0 updates open table format support to Apache Hudi 0.15.0, Apache Iceberg 1.6.1, and Delta Lake 3.2.0 so you can solve advanced use cases around performance, cost, governance, and privacy in your data lakes. AWS Glue 5.0 adds Spark native fine grained access control with AWS Lake Formation so you can apply table, column, row, and cell level permissions on Amazon S3 data lakes.

To learn more, visit the AWS Glue product page and our documentation.