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What’s new with AWS Glue at AWS re:Invent 2022
AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. This year’s re:Invent will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from November 28 to December 2.
AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easier for analytics users to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for analytics, machine learning, and application development. You can discover and connect to over 70 diverse data sources, manage your data in a centralized data catalog, and visually create, run, and monitor ETL (extract, transform, and load) pipelines to load data.
This post walks you through the details of all AWS Glue-related sessions and activities to help you plan your conference week accordingly. These sessions should appeal to data and analytics teams, data engineers, engineering teams, and technology leaders interested in cost-effective, scalable, serverless data integration and ETL.
To access the session catalog and reserve your seat for one of our data integration and ETL sessions, you must be registered for re:Invent. Register now!
Keynotes
Adam Selipsky, Chief Executive Officer of Amazon Web Services – Keynote
Tuesday November 29 | 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PST | The Venetian
Join Adam Selipsky, Chief Executive Officer of Amazon Web Services, as he looks at the ways that forward-thinking builders are transforming industries and even our future, powered by AWS. He highlights innovations in data, infrastructure, and more that are helping customers achieve their goals faster, take advantage of untapped potential, and create a better future with AWS.
Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of AWS Data and Machine Learning – Keynote
Wednesday November 30 | 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PST | The Venetian
Join Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of AWS Data and Machine Learning, as he reveals the latest AWS innovations that can help you transform your company’s data into meaningful insights and actions for your business. In this keynote, several speakers discuss the key components of a future-proof data strategy and how to empower your organization to drive the next wave of modern invention with data. Hear from leading AWS customers who are using data to bring new experiences to life for their customers.
Leadership sessions
ANT203-L (LVL 200) Unlock the value of your data with AWS analytics
Wednesday November 30 | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | The Venetian
Data fuels digital transformation and drives effective business decisions. To survive in an ever-changing world, organizations are turning to data to derive insights, create new experiences, and reinvent themselves so they can remain relevant today and in the future. AWS offers analytics services that allow organizations to gain faster and deeper insights from all their data. In this session, G2 Krishnamoorthy, VP of AWS Analytics, addresses the current state of analytics on AWS, covers the latest service innovations around data, and highlights customer successes with AWS analytics. Also, learn from organizations like FINRA and more who have turned to AWS for their digital transformation journey.
Breakout sessions
ANT223 (LVL 200) Simplify and accelerate data integration and ETL modernization with AWS Glue
Wednesday November 30 | 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM PST | MGM Chairmans 368
In this session, learn about the latest innovations in AWS Glue and hear how an AWS customer uses AWS Glue to enable self-service data preparation across their organization. Itau, Brazil’s largest private-sector bank, also shares their AWS Glue success story.
ANT205 (LVL 200) Achieving your modern data architecture
Tuesday November 29 | 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM PST | Mandalay Bay
Many organizations are developing roadmaps to help them achieve digital transformation. This session helps you understand how deploying a modern data architecture can help you navigate your data challenges, optimize analytics processes, and deliver faster insights to the people and applications that need it.
*This session will also be repeated Thursday December 1 | 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM PST | MGM Grand
ANT335 (LVL 300) How Disney used AWS Glue as a data integration and ETL framework
Monday November 28 | 04:45 PM – 05:45 PM PST | MGM Grant 121
Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products is one of the world’s leading providers of family travel and leisure experiences. Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products uses AWS Glue—a serverless data integration service—as a key component to replace thousands of Apache Hadoop, Spark, and Sqoop jobs. In this session, Disney and AWS Glue experts discuss some ways to scale AWS Glue beyond the traditional setup and how they configure AWS Glue for job monitoring and performance.
Chalk talks
ANT322 (LVL 300) Simplifying ETL migration and data integration with AWS Glue
Monday November 28 | 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM PST | Mandalay Bay
Organizations are modernizing their data stacks with AWS. This chalk talk reviews how AWS Glue makes it easy to migrate your data integration and ETL workloads to the cloud using a serverless architecture that lets you focus on your data. See demos and a deep dive into some of the methods AWS Glue provides for migration.
*This session will also be repeated Friday December 2 | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST | Cesar Palace
ANT304 (LVL 300) Run serverless Spark workloads with AWS analytics
Tuesday November 29 | 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM PST | Wynn
In this chalk talk, learn how AWS serverless offerings can help you implement your Apache Spark workloads without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. Explore different Spark use cases and the available options to run these workloads with AWS analytics services. See reference architectures and typical use cases for each of them to help you choose the right tool for the right job.
Workshops
ANT310 (LVL 300) Build a data mesh with AWS Lake Formation and AWS Glue
Wednesday November 30 | 05:30 PM – 07:30 PM PST | MGM Grand
In this workshop, learn how to build a data mesh architecture on AWS. Organizations are interested in implementing this architecture to move away from centralized data lakes and toward decentralized ownership and delivery of analytics solutions across business units. Learn about data mesh fundamentals and principles, how data mesh can impact your organization, and how data mesh architecture can be implemented with AWS services. Build your own data mesh using AWS Lake Formation, AWS Glue, and AWS CDK, and share data across business units. You must bring your laptop to participate.
ANT002 (Demo) Discover, prepare, and integrate your data with AWS Glue
Wednesday November 30 | 04:30 PM– 04:50 PM PST | The Venetian
AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easier to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. Attend this session and learn ways that AWS Glue can simplify how you create and manage your data pipelines.
Additional activities
Data integration kiosk in the AWS Village
Visit the booth 1335 in the AWS Village to meet with experts to dive deeper into the latest AWS Glue launches. You will be able to ask our experts questions and experience live demos for our newly launched capabilities.
Useful resources
Whether you plan on attending re:Invent in person or view available content virtually, you can always learn more about AWS Glue through these helpful resources.
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About the author
Alona Nadler is AWS Glue Head of Product and is responsible for AWS Glue Service. She has a long history of working in the enterprise software and data services spaces. When not working, Alona enjoys traveling and playing tennis.