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{{Short description|Serverless computing platform}}
{{Infobox software
| name             = AWS Glue
| developer        = [[Amazon.com]]
| released         = {{Start date and age|2017|8}} <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/introducing-aws-glue-a-simple-flexible-and-cost-effective-extract-transfer-and-load-etl-service/|title=Introducing AWS Glue: A Simple, Flexible, and Cost-Effective Extract, Transfer, and Load (ETL) Service}}</ref>
| operating system = [[Cross-platform]]
| language         = English
}}

'''AWS Glue''' is an [[event-driven programming|event-driven]], [[serverless computing]] platform provided by [[Amazon.com|Amazon]] as a part of [[Amazon Web Services]]. It was introduced in August 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.parkmycloud.com/aws-services-list/ |title=AWS Services List |website=ParkMyCloud |access-date=October 6, 2020}}</ref> 

The primary purpose of Glue is to scan other services<ref>{{cite web |url=https://digitalcloud.training/aws-glue/ |title=AWS Glue: crawlers and use cases |date=5 January 2022 |access-date=July 13, 2022}}</ref> in the same [[Amazon Virtual Private Cloud|Virtual Private Cloud]] (or equivalent accessible network element even if not provided by AWS), particularly [[Amazon S3|S3]]. The jobs are billed according to compute time, with a minimum count of 1 minute.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/08/aws-glue-version-2-featuring-10x-faster-job-start-times-1-minute-minimum-billing-duration/ |title=AWS Glue version 2.0 featuring 10x faster job start times and 1-minute minimum billing duration |website=AWS |date=August 10, 2020 |access-date=October 6, 2020}}</ref> Glue discovers the source data to store associated meta-data (e.g. the table's [[Database schema|schema]] of field names, types lengths) in the AWS Glue Data Catalog (which is then accessible via AWS console or APIs).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/webapi/WebAPI_Welcome.html |title=AWS Glue API Documentation |website=AWS |access-date=October 6, 2020}}</ref> 

==Languages supported ==
[[Scala (programming language)|Scala]] and [[Python (programming language)|Python]] are officially supported {{as of|2020|lc=1}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/01/aws-glue-now-supports-scala-in-addition-to-python/#:~:text=AWS%20Glue%20now%20supports%20the,jobs%20that%20can%20be%20scheduled |title=AWS Glue Now Supports Scala in Addition to Python |website=AWS |date=January 12, 2018 |access-date=October 6, 2020}}</ref> 

==Catalog interrogation via API==
The catalog can be read in AWS console (via browser) and via [[API]] divided into topics including:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/aws-glue-api-catalog.html |title=Catalog API
 |website=AWS |access-date=October 8, 2020}}</ref>
* Database API
* Table API
* Partition API
* Connection API
* User-Defined Function API
* Importing an [[Amazon Athena|Athena]] Catalog to AWS Glue

==See also==
* [[Event-driven architecture]]
* [[Serverless Framework]]
* [[Serverless computing]]
* [[Function as a service]]
* [[Oracle Cloud#Platform as a Service (PaaS)|Oracle Cloud Platform]]
* [[Google Cloud Functions]]
* [[Microsoft_Azure#Function|Azure Function]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|https://aws.amazon.com/glue}}

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