Cross-account AWS Glue Data Catalog access with Glue ETL

To process data in AWS Glue ETL, DataFrame or DynamicFrame is required. A DataFrame is similar to a table and supports functional-style (map/reduce/filter/etc.) along with SQL operations. The AWS Glue DynamicFrame is similar to DataFrame, except that each record is self-describing, so no schema is required initially. It computes a schema on-the-fly when required, and …

Scan Dynamodb table from AWS Glue in different account

In this blog post I will list down the steps required to setup the AWS Glue job to scan the dynamodb table in another account. In my setup, I scan the dynamodb table in Account A (us-west-2), perform glue transformations in Account B (us-east-1) and write it to S3 in Account B. Account A - …