AWS Glue
A serverless data integration service.
Overview
AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it simple and cost-effective to categorize your data, clean it, enrich it, and move it reliably between various data stores and data streams. AWS Glue consists of a central metadata repository known as the AWS Glue Data Catalog, an ETL engine that automatically generates Python or Scala code, and a flexible scheduler that handles dependency resolution, job monitoring, and retries.
✨ Key Features
- Serverless ETL
- Automatic schema discovery (crawlers)
- Integrated data catalog
- Visual and code-based job authoring
- Job scheduling and orchestration
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Deep integration with the AWS ecosystem
- Serverless architecture
- Pay-as-you-go pricing
Unique Value: AWS Glue simplifies and automates the process of data integration on AWS, allowing customers to build and manage data pipelines with ease.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Building serverless ETL jobs to process data in Amazon S3
- Creating and managing a data catalog for a data lake on AWS
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Complex, multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud orchestration.
- Workflows that are not primarily data integration tasks.
🏆 Alternatives
Compared to self-managing ETL infrastructure, AWS Glue is more cost-effective, scalable, and easier to manage.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (AWS Support Plans tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
Free tier: Free tier for the Data Catalog and crawlers.
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