AWS Glue 6.0 delivers 30% price reduction and Iceberg v3 support

AWS Glue 6.0 is now generally available, delivering a 30% price reduction and introducing full support for Apache Iceberg v3, newer versions of Apache Hudi and Delta Lake, and new capabilities to improve developer productivity. AWS Glue 6.0 also upgrades runtime to Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.13, and Scala 2.13. With Apache Iceberg v3, AWS Glue 6.0 adds the VARIANT data type with automatic shredding for faster reads on semi-structured data, deletion vectors for high-performance row-level updates, geometry and geography data types for spatial processing, and flexible schema evolution through UNK