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AWS Glue

AWS Glue

AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL (extract, transform, and load) service that makes data preparation simpler, faster, and more cost-effective. It automatically discovers your data, generates transformation code, and runs ETL jobs on a serverless platform.

Core Benefits​

  • Serverless: No infrastructure to manage; AWS Glue handles provisioning, configuration, and scaling of resources.
  • Automated Code Generation: Can automatically generate ETL scripts to transform your data.
  • Integrated: Tightly integrated with the AWS Glue Data Catalog, S3, and other AWS analytics services.

Role in Data Pipeline​

Data Processing: Serves as the primary ETL engine for cleaning, enriching, and transforming raw data from sources like S3 into a structured format suitable for analysis in a data warehouse or data lake.

Processing your data

Use Cases​

  • Data Transformation: Converting raw, nested JSON data from an S3 data lake into a compressed, columnar Parquet format for efficient querying.
  • Data Enrichment: Joining customer data with marketing data to create a unified dataset for analysis.
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AWS Glue is the serverless solution for preparing and transforming data, removing the heavy lifting of managing ETL infrastructure.

Use case: Ideal for organizations that want to build scalable, automated ETL pipelines without managing servers.

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