Easily obtain quality data analytics from a range of diverse data sources.
AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that automates the preparation and loading of data for analytics by discovering, cataloguing, and transforming data from various sources into a consistent format.
What you should know
AWS Glue
AWS Glue is a comprehensive, fully managed ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service by Amazon Web Services. It simplifies the process of preparing and loading data for analytics by automating data discovery, cataloguing, and transformation tasks.
Glue supports diverse data sources, extracting insights from unstructured and structured data.
With its dynamic schema evolution and integration with other AWS services, Glue accelerates the data preparation process, making it easier for organisations to harness the power of their data for analytics and business intelligence.
Benefits
AWS Glue provides a fully managed and serverless environment, eliminating the need for infrastructure management and allowing users to focus on extracting insights from their data.
Glue automates the ETL process, facilitating data discovery, cataloguing, and transformation, which reduces the complexity of preparing data for analytics.
Glue supports diverse data sources, both structured and unstructured, enabling organizations to analyse a wide range of data formats seamlessly. Its dynamic schema evolution accommodates changes in data sources, ensuring flexibility.
Integration
Glue integrates with other AWS services, such as Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, and Amazon Redshift, creating a cohesive analytics ecosystem.
It also offers capabilities for discovering, cataloguing, and organising metadata, enhancing data governance and accessibility.
Use cases
AWS Glue is designed as an accelerator for companies looking to automating ETL workflows and streamline the process of preparing and loading data for analytics.
Glue supports diverse data sources and formats, both structured and unstructured. Its dynamic schema evolution is particularly beneficial for applications with evolving data structures.
Glue facilitates data lake and data warehouse integration, without a dedicated data engineering function.
