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AWS Glue

Managed data integration with a shared Data Catalog, crawlers, and serverless ETL capabilities.

Key points

  • The Data Catalog supplies table and schema metadata to services such as Athena and EMR.
  • Glue jobs transform and prepare data; layout choices such as columnar formats and partitions affect downstream scans.
  • Catalog metadata and lake permissions are separate from the underlying S3 and KMS authorization.

Best-known use cases

  • Catalog data-lake datasets.
  • Run managed ETL and convert raw data into analytics-friendly layouts.

What candidates often confuse it with

  • Glue handles catalog/data integration; Lake Formation centralizes fine-grained data-lake governance.
  • Glue serverless ETL minimizes cluster work; EMR fits distributed framework and cluster-control requirements.

Key takeaway

Choose Glue for managed catalog and ETL, then use the service that fits the query or visualization stage.

Related services

  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon Athena
  • AWS Lake Formation
  • Amazon EMR

Relevant exam tasks

  • D3.5

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Duration
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