AWS Glue Data Catalog Client for Apache Hive Metastore now supports Hive 3 and discovery of multiple catalogs

Amazon EMR now supports native data quality checks in Apache Spark jobs

Amazon EMR now validates data quality natively within Apache Spark jobs. Data engineering teams can catch quality issues inline before bad data reaches downstream systems, without building or maintaining separate validation infrastructure.

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports table optimization, statistics, and crawlers for Apache Iceberg V3

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports table optimization, statistics, and crawlers for Apache Iceberg Version 3 (V3) tables. With these new capabilities, you can automatically maintain V3 tables, optimize them for query performance, and discover them in Amazon S3.