AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service designed to automate ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, making it easier for organizations to prepare, clean, and move data across different sources for analytics, machine learning, and application development. It eliminates the need for manual infrastructure management by automatically provisioning resources, scaling based on workload, and charging only for the compute time used. AWS Glue includes a built-in Data Catalog, which automatically discovers, organizes, and maintains metadata about datasets, making them easily searchable and queryable through services like Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift Spectrum, and AWS Lake Formation. You can learn more about AWS Glue on the official product page. So, what is new in AWS Glue?
Whats New
AWS Glue has expanded its connectivity portfolio by introducing 14 new native connectors, enabling seamless data ingestion from a variety of popular applications. These connectors include Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT, CircleCI, DocuSign Monitor, Domo, Dynatrace, Kustomer, Mailchimp, Microsoft Teams, Monday.com, Okta, Pendo, Pipedrive, Productboard, and Salesforce Commerce Cloud. This enhancement allows enterprises to integrate data from diverse sources more efficiently, supporting data-driven decision-making processes.
With these new connectors, customers can now easily establish connections to their preferred applications directly through the AWS Glue console or APIs, eliminating the need to learn application-specific APIs. AWS Glue native connectors leverage the scalability and performance of the AWS Glue Spark engine, while also supporting standard authentication and authorization methods like OAuth 2. Additionally, users can test connections, validate credentials, preview data, and browse metadata, streamlining the data integration process.
These connectors are available across all AWS commercial regions, making them accessible to a wide range of customers. To get started, users can create new AWS Glue connections using these connectors and utilize them as data sources in AWS Glue Studio. For more detailed information, visit the AWS Glue documentation on connectors. This expansion underscores AWS Glue’s commitment to providing robust, scalable, and user-friendly solutions for modern data integration challenges.
