This article contains content that is written like
an advertisement. (November 2023) |
Developer(s) | Amazon.com |
---|---|
Initial release | August 2017[1] |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Available in | English |
Website |
aws |
AWS Glue is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of Amazon Web Services. It is a computing service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the computing resources required by that code. It was introduced in August 2017. [2]
The primary purpose of Glue is to scan other services [3] in the same Virtual Private Cloud (or equivalent accessible network element even if not provided by AWS), particularly S3. The jobs are billed according to compute time, with a minimum count of 1 minute. [4] Glue discovers the source data to store associated meta-data (e.g. the table's schema of field names, types lengths) in the AWS Glue Data Catalog (which is then accessible via AWS console or APIs). [5]
Scala and Python are officially supported as of 2020 [update]. [6]
The catalog can be read in AWS console (via browser) and via API divided into topics including: [7]