AWS Glue 6.0: 30% Cheaper with Iceberg v3 and Spark 4.1
AWS Glue 6.0 is now live across all commercial, GovCloud, and China regions, slashing costs by 30% while adding Apache Iceberg v3 support with VARIANT data types, deletion vectors, and spatial processing capabilities. The upgrade brings Spark 4.1, Python 3.13, Real-Time Mode streaming for sub-second latencies, and Spark Declarative Pipelines to cut boilerplate orchestration code—perfect for ETL, batch jobs, and AI workloads.
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