Overview of AWS Glue interactive sessions

With AWS Glue interactive sessions, you can rapidly build, test, and run data preparation and analytics applications. Interactive sessions provides a programmatic and visual interface for building and testing extract, transform, and load (ETL) scripts for data preparation. Interactive sessions run Apache Spark analytics applications and provide on-demand access to a remote Spark runtime environment. AWS Glue transparently manages serverless Spark for these interactive sessions.

Interactive sessions are flexible, so you build and test your applications from the environment of your choice. You can create and work with interactive sessions through the AWS Command Line Interface and the API. You can use Jupyter-compatible notebooks to visually author and test your notebook scripts. Interactive sessions provide an open-source Jupyter kernel that integrates almost anywhere that Jupyter does, including integrating with IDEs such as PyCharm, IntelliJ, and VS Code. This enables you to author code in your local environment and run it seamlessly on the interactive sessions backend.

Using the interactive sessions API, customers can programmatically run applications that use Apache Spark analytics without having to manage Spark infrastructure. You can run one or more Spark statements within a single interactive session.

Interactive sessions therefore provide a faster, cheaper, more-flexible way to build and run data preparation and analytics applications. To learn how to use interactive sessions, see the documentation in this section. Magics supported by AWS Glue

Limitations

Interactive sessions and notebooks are not currently available in the Middle East (UAE) (me-central-1), Europe (Spain) (eu-south-2), or Europe (Zurich) (eu-central-2) regions, but may be made available later.

Job bookmarks are not supported in interactive sessions.