What is AWS Glue
AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development. AWS Glue provides all the capabilities needed for data integration so that you can start analysing your data and putting it to use in minutes instead of months.
Advantages
Fast data integration
AWS Glue simplifies and automates the complex, time-consuming tasks of data discovery, transformation, binding, and job scheduling.
Automation of data integration with the ability to scale
AWS Glue can be used to simplify the execution and management of thousands of ETL tasks, or to combine and replicate data from multiple data storages using SQL.
Serverless environment
AWS Glue offers a managed ETL service that runs in a serverless Apache Spark environment. It allows us to focus on developing ETL tasks and eliminate the need to configure and manage underlying computing resources.
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