AWS Glue now supports new workers for larger and memory intensive workloads
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AWS Glue has expanded its worker types to support larger and more memory-intensive data processing workloads:
- New general compute workers: G.12X and G.16X with increased compute, memory, and storage
- New memory-optimized workers: R.1X, R.2X, R.4X, and R.8X with double the memory of G workers
- Enables more complex data transformations, aggregations, joins, and queries
- Supports processing higher volumes of data with Apache Spark
- Accessible through AWS Glue Studio, notebooks, Visual ETL, and Glue Job APIs
These new worker types provide AWS Glue customers with more flexible and powerful data processing capabilities for resource-intensive workloads.
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