Category: AWS Glue

Alerts and notifications play a crucial role in maintaining data quality because they facilitate prompt and efficient responses to any data quality issues that may arise within a dataset. By establishing and configuring alerts and notifications, you can actively monitor data quality and receive timely alerts when data quality issues are identified. This proactive approach […]

Data is the lifeblood of modern businesses. In today’s data-driven world, companies rely on data to make informed decisions, gain a competitive edge, and provide exceptional customer experiences. However, not all data is created equal. Poor-quality data can lead to incorrect insights, bad decisions, and lost opportunities. AWS Glue Data Quality measures and monitors the […]

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. You can use AWS Glue to create, run, and monitor data integration and ETL (extract, transform, and load) pipelines and catalog your assets across multiple data stores. Hundreds of […]

This is a guest blog post by Mira Daniels and Sean Whitfield from SumUp. SumUp is a leading global financial technology company driven by the purpose of leveling the playing field for small businesses. Founded in 2012, SumUp is the financial partner for more than 4 million small merchants in over 35 markets worldwide, helping […]

September 2023: This post was reviewed and updated with a new dataset and related code blocks and images. AWS SDK for pandas is a popular Python library among data scientists, data engineers, and developers. It simplifies interaction between AWS data and analytics services and pandas DataFrames. It allows easy integration and data movement between 22 […]

Amazon Redshift is a widely used, fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data every day to power their analytic workloads. Customers are looking for tools that make it easier to migrate from other data warehouses, such as Google BigQuery, to Amazon Redshift to […]

Customers have been using data warehousing solutions to perform their traditional analytics tasks. Recently, data lakes have gained lot of traction to become the foundation for analytical solutions, because they come with benefits such as scalability, fault tolerance, and support for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured datasets. Data lakes are not transactional by default; however, there […]

Data transformation plays a pivotal role in providing the necessary data insights for businesses in any organization, small and large. To gain these insights, customers often perform ETL (extract, transform, and load) jobs from their source systems and output an enriched dataset. Many organizations today are using AWS Glue to build ETL pipelines that bring data […]

Organizations across all industries have complex data processing requirements for their analytical use cases across different analytics systems, such as data lakes on AWS, data warehouses (Amazon Redshift), search (Amazon OpenSearch Service), NoSQL (Amazon DynamoDB), machine learning (Amazon SageMaker), and more. Analytics professionals are tasked with deriving value from data stored in these distributed systems […]

Jul 2023: This post was reviewed and updated with Glue 4.0 support in AWS Glue Studio notebook and interactive sessions. Deriving insight from data is hard. It’s even harder when your organization is dealing with silos that impede data access across different data stores. Seamless data integration is a key requirement in a modern data […]