AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support
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This article announces the general availability of AWS Glue 6.0, delivering 30% lower pricing and full Apache Iceberg v3 support with a modernized runtime.
- VARIANT data type with shredding for faster semi-structured data queries without schema flattening
- Geometry, Geography data types, and nanosecond-precision timestamps for spatial and IoT workloads
- Spark Declarative Pipelines simplify ETL authoring by automatically determining execution order
- Arrow-native Python UDFs and UDTFs eliminate serialization overhead for improved PySpark performance
- Real-time streaming mode achieves single-digit millisecond latency for event processing
- Built on Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.12, and Scala 2.13 for faster performance
- No API changes required; select version via --glue-version parameter or AWS Glue Studio console
AWS Glue 6.0 provides the most complete Iceberg v3 implementation on any fully serverless managed Spark service, available in all AWS Regions.
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