AWS Glue

AWS Glue is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of Amazon Web Services. It was introduced in August 2017.^[2]

AWS Glue

Developer(s)	Amazon.com
Initial release	August 2017; 7 years ago (2017-08) [1]
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	English
Website	aws.amazon.com/glue/

Overview

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.^{[citation needed]} 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]

Languages supported

Scala and Python are officially supported as of 2020^[update].^[6]

Catalog interrogation via API

The catalog can be read in AWS console (via browser) and via API divided into topics including:^[7]

• Database API
• Table API
• Partition API
• Connection API
• User-Defined Function API
• Importing an Athena Catalog to AWS Glue

See also

• Event-driven architecture
• Serverless Framework
• Function as a service
• Google Cloud Functions
• Azure Function
• Oracle Cloud Platform