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AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support | Amazon Web Services

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Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Glue 6.0, delivering 30% lower pricing than previous AWS Glue versions and introducing full support for Apache Iceberg v3 features. AWS Glue 6.0 is built on a fully modernized runtime, Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.12, and Scala 2.13, delivering faster performance.

With this release, AWS Glue provides the most complete Iceberg v3 implementation on any fully serverless managed Spark service, along with new capabilities that simplify ETL authoring, improve PySpark performance, and enable real-time streaming with single-digit millisecond latency.

What is new in AWS Glue 6.0
AWS Glue 6.0 delivers the complete Apache Iceberg v3 specification, built on Iceberg 1.11.0. The headline feature is the VARIANT data type with shredding support, which achieves faster query read performance compared to traditional string data type columns for semi-structured data.

With VARIANT shredding, you can store and query JSON, logs,...

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