Posted On: Apr 9, 2025
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Glue 5.0. With Amazon Glue 5.0, you get improved performance, enhanced security, support for Amazon Sagemaker Unified Studio and Sagemaker Lakehouse, and more. Amazon Glue 5.0 enables you to develop, run, and scale your data integration workloads and get insights faster.
Amazon Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. Amazon Glue 5.0 upgrades the engines to Apache Spark 3.5.2, Python 3.11, and Java 17, with new performance and security improvements. Glue 5.0 updates open table format support to Apache Hudi 0.15.0, Apache Iceberg 1.6.1, and Delta Lake 3.2.0 so you can solve advanced use cases around performance, cost, governance, and privacy in your data lakes. Amazon Glue 5.0 adds Spark native fine grained access control with Amazon Lake Formation so you can apply table, column, row, and cell level permissions on Amazon S3 data lakes. Finally, Glue 5.0 adds support for Sagemaker Lakehouse to unify all your data across Amazon S3 data lakes and Amazon Redshift data warehouses.
Amazon Glue 5.0 is generally available today in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.
To learn more, visit the Amazon Glue product page and our documentation.
