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Friday, August 21, 2026

AWS Glue 6.0 Launches with 30% Price Cut and Full Apache Iceberg Support

AWS Glue 6.0 is here with a modernized runtime featuring Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.12, and Scala 2.13—plus full Apache Iceberg v3 support. Data engineers get 30% lower costs compared to previous versions, making ETL pipelines more efficient and budget-friendly.

source: [aws/aws-blog]