Category: AWS Glue

In this post, we delve into the key aspects of using Amazon EMR for modern data management, covering topics such as data governance, data mesh deployment, and streamlined data discovery. One of the key challenges in modern big data management is facilitating efficient data sharing and access control across multiple EMR clusters. Organizations have multiple […]

In this post, we show how to create an AWS Glue job that measures and monitors the data quality of a data pipeline using dynamic rules. We also show how to take action based on the data quality results.

In this post, we explore how to use Zingg’s entity resolution capabilities within an AWS Glue notebook, which you can later run as an extract, transform, and load (ETL) job. By integrating Zingg in your notebooks or ETL jobs, you can effectively address data governance challenges and provide consistent and accurate data across your organization.

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Apache Iceberg on AWS technical guide. Whether you are new to Apache Iceberg on AWS or already running production workloads on AWS, this comprehensive technical guide offers detailed guidance on foundational concepts to advanced optimizations to build your transactional data lake with Apache Iceberg on AWS.

In this post, we show you how to use the new views feature the AWS Glue Data Catalog. SQL views are a powerful object used across relational databases. You can use views to decrease the time to insights of data by tailoring the data that is queried. Additionally, you can use the power of SQL […]

October 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. AWS Glue is a fully managed, serverless data integration service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that uses Apache Spark as one of its backend processing engines (as of this writing, you can use Python Shell or Spark). Data skew occurs when the data being […]

This is a guest post co-authored with Kanehito Miyake, Engineer at Fujitsu Japan.  Fujitsu Limited was established in Japan in 1935. Currently, we have approximately 120,000 employees worldwide (as of March 2023), including group companies. We develop business in various regions around the world, starting with Japan, and provide digital services globally. To provide a […]

Today, we’re excited to announce general availability of Amazon Q data integration in AWS Glue. Amazon Q data integration, a new generative AI-powered capability of Amazon Q Developer, enables you to build data integration pipelines using natural language. This reduces the time and effort you need to learn, build, and run data integration jobs using […]

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that you can use to set up and operate data pipelines in the cloud at scale. Apache Airflow is an open source tool used to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor sequences of processes and tasks, referred to as workflows. […]

In this post, we discuss how to implement bucketing on AWS data lakes, including using Athena CTAS statement and AWS Glue for Apache Spark. We also cover bucketing for Apache Iceberg tables.