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Cost-effective ETL with DuckDB and Amazon S3 Tables on AWS Glue

calendar_today October 6, 2026 person Bezuayehu Wate domain aws-glue

Learn how to pair DuckDB with AWS Glue 6.0 to run SQL-centric ETL on a single worker, reading Parquet from Amazon S3 and writing Apache Iceberg tables to Amazon S3 Tables. This post walks through a complete, runnable example and compares measured cost and runtime against an equivalent Apache Spark job on the same Glue runtime.

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