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AWS Glue? The complete guide for beginners in 2022

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration and ETL service. It is mostly use by Data Engineers and ETL developers to create, run, and monitor ETL workflows. 

Every business produces data volumes every day across multiple business functions. It is challenging to find insights from the raw data. Among many other data services, Amazon has introduces a new service called AWS Glue. It was earlier named as Amazon Data Catalogue. AWS Glue streamlines unstructured data storage in one centralized location.

AWS Athena is a successor of AWS Glue. It is used to discover value from data through one centralized location. AWS Glue easily integrates with AWS data services like S3, Lamda and more.

No infrastructure set up is required to manage. 


AWS Glue Pricing:

It varies by type of data processed and varies very slightly by region.

$0.44 per DPU-Hour


Why to use AWS Glue:

To run serverless queries across Amazon S3 data lake.

To comprehend data assets.


Features of AWS Glue:

Scalable Architecture

Automated ETL Process

Consistent Data Quality

Easy to deploy


 


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