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Glue

  • Serverless Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) service

  • Used to prepare & transform data for analytics

  • Used to get data from a store, process and put it in another store (could be the same store)

Glue ETL job can write the transformed data using a compressed file format to save storage cost

Using Glue involves significant development efforts to write custom migration scripts to copy the database data into the target database.

Glue Data Catalog​

  • Glue Data Crawlers crawl databases and collect metadata which is populated in Glue Data Catalog
  • Metadata can be used for analytics