AWS Glue changelog
51 announcements since January 2025 · 1 preview · 2 price changes · 10 Region expansions
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October 20264
Apache Iceberg table optimization added in US West (N. California)Region
OAuth 2.0 bearer token authentication added for Apache Iceberg REST Catalog APIs
Native data quality checks in Spark jobs using DQDL rules, at no additional cost
Table optimization, statistics and crawlers now work with Apache Iceberg V3 tables
September 20263
August 20266
Remote Iceberg REST catalog federation added in AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
30% lower price, Iceberg v3 support, Spark 4.1, Python 3.13 and Scala 2.13Price
Available in ten more Regions, including Mexico (Central) and Israel (Tel Aviv)Region
New observation mode reduces false anomalies; ETL anomaly detection now has no chargePrice
Metadata export to S3 Tables and semantic search for KMS customer managed key catalogsPreview
July 20264
Adds VPC connections, filter pushdown and partitioned parallel reads
Adds anomaly detection for Catalog evaluations and writing results to Data Catalog tables
Adds Distribution Analyzer for histograms and value distribution profiles in DQDL
Connector and zero-ETL integrations added in AWS GovCloud (US-West, US-East)Region