Category: AWS Glue

Jan 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Modern data architectures encourage the integration of data lakes, data warehouses, and purpose-built data stores, enabling unified governance and easy data movement. With a modern data architecture on AWS, you can store data in a data lake and use a ring of purpose-built data services […]

September 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Nowadays, many customers have built their data lakes as the core of their data analytic systems. In a typical use case of data lakes, many concurrent queries run to retrieve consistent snapshots of business insights by aggregating query results. A large volume of data constantly […]

March 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Most businesses store their critical data in a data lake, where you can bring data from various sources to a centralized storage. The data is processed by specialized big data compute engines, such as Amazon Athena for interactive queries, Amazon EMR for Apache Spark applications, […]

May 2023: This post was reviewed and updated with code to read and write data to Iceberg table using Native iceberg connector, in the Appendix section. As the implementation of data lakes and modern data architecture increases, customers’ expectations around its features also increase, which include ACID transaction, UPSERT, time travel, schema evolution, auto compaction, […]

This is post is co-authored by Jyothin Madari, Madhusudhan Muppagowni and Ayush Srivastava from GE. GE Proficy Manufacturing Data Cloud (MDC), part of the GE Digital’s Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) suite of solutions, allows GED’s customers to increase the derived value easily and quickly from the MES by reliably bringing enterprise-wide manufacturing data into the […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. In 2019, Athena added support for federated queries to run SQL […]

Data engineers use various Python packages to meet their data processing requirements while building data pipelines with AWS Glue PySpark Jobs. Languages like Python and Scala are commonly used in data pipeline development. Developers can take advantage of their open-source packages or even customize their own to make it easier and faster to perform use […]

Do you want to reduce stockouts at stores? Do you want to improve order delivery timelines? Do you want to provide your customers with accurate product availability, down to the millisecond? A retail operational data lake can help you transform the customer experience by providing deeper insights into a variety of operational aspects of your […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. Metadata is an integral part of data management and governance. The AWS Glue Data Catalog can provide a uniform repository to store and share metadata. The main […]

June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. AWS Glue has become a popular option for integrating data from disparate data sources due to its ability to integrate large volumes of data using distributed data processing frameworks. Many customers use AWS Glue to build data lakes and data warehouses. Data engineers who prefer […]