Introducing AWS Glue 5.0

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Glue 5.0. With AWS Glue 5.0, you get improved performance, enhanced security, support for Amazon Sagemaker Unified Studio and Sagemaker Lakehouse, and more. AWS Glue 5.0 enables you to develop, run, and scale your data integration workloads and get insights faster.

AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. AWS Glue 5.0 upgrades the engines to Apache Spark 3.5.2, Python 3.11, and Java 17, with new performance and security improvements. Glue 5.0 updates open table format support to Apache Hudi 0.15.0, Apache Iceberg 1.6.1, and Delta Lake 3.2.0 so you can solve advanced use cases around performance, cost, governance, and privacy in your data lakes. AWS Glue 5.0 adds Spark native fine grained access control with AWS Lake Formation so you can apply table, column, row, and cell level permissions on Amazon S3 data lakes. Finally, Glue 5.0 adds support for Sagemaker Lakehouse to unify all your data across Amazon S3 data lakes and Amazon Redshift data warehouses.

AWS Glue 5.0 is generally available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), and South America (São Paulo) regions.

To learn more, visit the AWS Glue product page and documentation.