An overview of AWS Glue

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If you have data that needs to be subjected to analytics, then you will likely need to put that data through an extract, transform and load (ETL) process, AWS Glue is a fully managed service designed to do just this.  Through a series of simple configurable options, you can select your source data to be processed by AWS Glue allowing you to turn it into cataloged, searchable, and queryable data.  This lesson will take you through the fundamentals of AWS Glue to get you started with this service

Learning Objectives

The objectives of this lesson are to provide you with an understanding of:

• Serverless ETL
• The knowledge and architecture of a typical ETL project
• The prerequisite setup of AWS parts to use AWS Glue for ETL
• Knowledge of how to use AWS Glue to perform serverless ETL
• How to edit ETL processes created from AWS Glue

Intended Audience

This lesson is ideal for:

• Data warehouse engineers that are looking to learn more about serverless ETL and AWS Glue
• Developers that want to learn more about ETL work using AWS Glue
• Developer leads that want to learn more about the serverless ETL process
• Project managers and owners that want to learn about data preparation 

Prerequisites

As a prerequisite to this lesson you should have familiarity with:

• One ore more of the data storage destinations offered by AWS
• Data warehousing principles
• Serverless computing
• Object-orientated programming (Python)

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