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AWS Glue Service Delivery Program
AWS Glue is a fully managed, serverless data integration service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that simplifies the process of discovering, preparing, moving, and integrating data from multiple sources for analytics, machine learning, and application development. It allows users to build, run, and monitor extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines without managing any infrastructure.
Key features of AWS Glue include:
- Serverless Architecture: AWS Glue automatically provisions and scales the resources needed to run ETL jobs, so you don't have to manage any servers or infrastructure.
- Data Discovery and Cataloging: It can automatically crawl and discover data from various sources, storing metadata such as schema information in a centralized AWS Glue Data Catalog. This catalog is accessible across AWS analytics services like Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift Spectrum.
- ETL Jobs: Users can define ETL jobs in Python or Scala (using Apache Spark) to transform and move data between sources and targets. AWS Glue can generate code automatically or allow users to customize scripts. It supports data sources such as Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, and JDBC-accessible databases, among others.
- Visual Tools: AWS Glue Studio provides a graphical interface to create, run, and monitor ETL workflows, making it easier for users with varying technical skills to manage data integration tasks. AWS Glue DataBrew offers visual data preparation capabilities without coding.
- Scalability and Cost Efficiency: AWS Glue scales on demand to handle any data size and supports pay-as-you-go pricing, where you pay only for the resources used during ETL job execution.
- Integration with AWS Ecosystem: It integrates seamlessly with other AWS analytics and data storage services, enabling efficient data pipelines across the AWS cloud.
- Additional Features: AWS Glue includes data cleansing, transformation, and data quality management capabilities, including automated data quality rules and alerts.
Levi9 has vast experience in developing Data solutions using AWS Glue. Find out more in our customer cases:
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