AWS Glue adds 100 new native connectors for popular SaaS applications
AWS Glue now supports 100 new native connectors that simplify access to data in popular SaaS and REST API-based applications. Previously, bringing data from SaaS applications into AWS required writing custom code.
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The following AlloyDB AI features and improvements are generally available ( GA ): - Smart batching for AI...
The following AlloyDB AI features and improvements are generally available ( GA ): Smart batching for AI functions: AI function acceleration is generally available for ai.if , ai.rank , ai.analyze_sentiment , ai.summarize , ai.extract , ai.classify , and ai.generate on AlloyDB clusters running PostgreSQL 17 and later.
To support your FinOps practices, you can now opt in to compute cost attribution in BigQuery editions
To support your FinOps practices, you can now opt in to compute cost attribution in BigQuery editions. This feature attributes billed compute charges directly to the query projects that use your administration project's reservation capacity.
Query performance troubleshooting and job and system performance comparison in the BigQuery jobs explorer are...
Query performance troubleshooting and job and system performance comparison in the BigQuery jobs explorer are generally available (GA). For more information, see Troubleshoot job performance and Diagnose performance regressions by comparing jobs and systems .
When you create or schedule a pipeline, you can specify the maximum number of concurrently executed pipeline...
When you create or schedule a pipeline, you can specify the maximum number of concurrently executed pipeline tasks. This feature is generally available (GA).
You can use compression functions in GoogleSQL to compress or decompress bytes or string values by using the...
You can use compression functions in GoogleSQL to compress or decompress bytes or string values by using the Zstandard (Zstd) lossless data compression algorithm. The following functions are supported: ZSTD_COMPRESS ZSTD_DECOMPRESS_TO_BYTES ZSTD_DECOMPRESS_TO_STRING These functions are in Preview .
Fast mode for Anthropic Claude models is generally available
Fast mode for supported Anthropic Claude models, starting with Claude Fable 5.2 ( claude-fable-5-2 ), is available in General Availability (GA) . You can set "speed": "fast" in online pay-as-you-go prediction requests to accelerate output token generation for latency-sensitive agentic workflows.
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AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports catalog-vended credentials with Apache Iceberg REST catalog federation
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports vended credentials for Apache Iceberg REST catalog federation. This allows users to read external Iceberg tables using coarse-grained grants and temporary security credentials scoped to S3 prefixes.
Amazon S3 Tables now offer managed migration of Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg
Amazon S3 Tables now supports managed migration of Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg. The service handles data validation, compatibility checks, type conversions, and file recompression as a managed, API-driven operation.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.