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Category: AWS Glue

AWS analytics at re:Invent 2025: Unifying Data, AI, and governance at scale

re:Invent 2025 showcased the bold Amazon Web Services (AWS) vision for the future of analytics, one where data warehouses, data lakes, and AI development converge into a seamless, open, intelligent platform, with Apache Iceberg compatibility at its core. Across over 18 major announcements spanning three weeks, AWS demonstrated how organizations can break down data silos, […]

Introducing the Apache Spark troubleshooting agent for Amazon EMR and AWS Glue

In this post, we show you how the Apache Spark troubleshooting agent helps analyze Apache Spark issues by providing detailed root causes and actionable recommendations. You’ll learn how to streamline your troubleshooting workflow by integrating this agent with your existing monitoring solutions across Amazon EMR and AWS Glue.

Introducing Apache Iceberg materialized views in AWS Glue Data Catalog

Hundreds of thousands of customers build artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and analytics applications on AWS, frequently transforming data through multiple stages for improved query performance—from raw data to processed datasets to final analytical tables. Data engineers must solve complex problems, including detecting what data has changed in base tables, writing and maintaining transformation […]

Introducing AWS Glue 5.1 for Apache Spark

AWS recently announced Glue 5.1, a new version of AWS Glue that accelerates data integration workloads in AWS. AWS Glue 5.1 upgrades the Spark engines to Apache Spark 3.5.6, giving you newer Spark release along with the newer dependent libraries so you can develop, run, and scale your data integration workloads and get insights faster. In this post, we describe what’s new in AWS Glue 5.1, key highlights on Spark and related libraries, and how to get started on AWS Glue 5.1.

SAP data ingestion and replication with AWS Glue zero-ETL

AWS Glue zero-ETL with SAP now supports data ingestion and replication from SAP data sources such as Operational Data Provisioning (ODP) managed SAP Business Warehouse (BW) extractors, Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP), Core Data Services (CDS) views, and other non-ODP data sources. Zero-ETL data replication and schema synchronization writes extracted data to AWS services like Amazon Redshift, Amazon SageMaker lakehouse, and Amazon S3 Tables, alleviating the need for manual pipeline development. In this post, we show how to create and monitor a zero-ETL integration with various ODP and non-ODP SAP sources.

Medidata’s journey to a modern lakehouse architecture on AWS

In this post, we show you how Medidata created a unified, scalable, real-time data platform that serves thousands of clinical trials worldwide with AWS services, Apache Iceberg, and a modern lakehouse architecture.

Introducing catalog federation for Apache Iceberg tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog

AWS Glue now supports catalog federation for remote Iceberg tables in the Data Catalog. With catalog federation, you can query remote Iceberg tables, stored in Amazon S3 and cataloged in remote Iceberg catalogs, using AWS analytics engines and without moving or duplicating tables. In this post, we discuss how to get started with catalog federation for Iceberg tables in the Data Catalog.

Accelerate data lake operations with Apache Iceberg V3 deletion vectors and row lineage

In this post, we walk you through the new capabilities in Iceberg V3, explain how deletion vectors and row lineage address these challenges, explore real-world use cases across industries, and provide practical guidance on implementing Iceberg V3 features across AWS analytics, catalog, and storage services.