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AWS Glue zero-ETL adds target table property ownership and conflict detection
AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations now detect table property conflicts and track integration ownership. When you configure a source table and target catalog, Glue associates the resulting table properties with the owning integration, so two integrations can no longer be pointed at the same target table without your knowledge.
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Metadata for BigQuery Graph is automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog
Metadata for BigQuery Graph is automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog . This feature is available in preview .
BigQuery supports WHERE clauses inside aggregate function calls in preview
Aggregate function calls can now include a WHERE clause that filters their input with a boolean expression, simplifying conditional aggregation in SQL.
Multimodal AI_SUMMARIZE for automatic theme summarization (Public Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI_SUMMARIZE is now available in public preview, enabling customers to summarize text and multimodal content, including images and documents, directly in Snowflake.
Zero-copy support for all table formats in interactive warehouses (General availability)
Support for all table formats in interactive warehouses is now generally available and is no longer in Preview .
Genie visualizations in Slack replies (Public Preview)
When a Genie response includes a chart, the visualization now appears as an image in the Slack reply. If you installed the Databricks Genie app for Slack previously, reinstall it to enable this. See Visualizations .
Metadata for BigQuery Graph is now automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog
Metadata for BigQuery Graph is now automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog. This feature is available in preview . For more information, see Knowledge Catalog overview .
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AWS Glue zero-ETL now captures archived Salesforce records
AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations for Salesforce now capture archived records in your target tables, giving you a complete replica of your Salesforce data for analytics and reporting. Archived records are identified and reflected accurately through the isArchived field, so your analytical data stays fully in sync with your Salesforce source.
AWS Glue Data Quality delivers context-specific rule recommendations in seconds
AWS Glue Data Quality now generates data quality rules in seconds, reducing the time to establish data quality checks for your tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. You get a ready-to-use set of rules with full coverage across every column, with no manual setup, so you can move from raw data to trusted data faster while authoring pipelines.
Apache Iceberg materialized views now support system-managed write protection
Today, AWS announces system-managed materialized views for Apache Iceberg. Materialized views let you precompute an expensive query once and reuse the result across engines. Because this result is an open Iceberg table in your data lake, anyone with write access can change it, either through the catalog or by writing to the files in Amazon S3.
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports table optimization, statistics, and crawlers for Apache Iceberg V3
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports table optimization, statistics, and crawlers for Apache Iceberg Version 3 (V3) tables. With these new capabilities, you can automatically maintain V3 tables, optimize them for query performance, and discover them in Amazon S3.
AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support
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 3.13, and Scala 2.13, delivering faster performance.
Amazon EMR now supports native data quality checks in Apache Spark jobs
Amazon EMR now validates data quality natively within Apache Spark jobs. Data engineering teams can catch quality issues inline before bad data reaches downstream systems, without building or maintaining separate validation infrastructure.
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports OAuth for Apache Iceberg REST Catalog APIs
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports OAuth 2.0 bearer token authentication for Apache Iceberg REST Catalog APIs, allowing secure federated access for third-party analytics platforms.
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports Apache Iceberg table optimization in the US West (N. California) Region
Automatic table optimization for Apache Iceberg is now available in the US West (N. California) region. It compacts small files and removes unreferenced snapshots to improve query performance.