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How to optimize the cost of AWS glue?


Well I have been working around with AWS Glue and what I am conerning is that the Cost.

The expenses for crawler and job are very cheap but the cost of Endpoint is very high.

If you have any tips or advices to reduce the cost please help me.

My main reason of using AWS glue is to move data from 1 database (mySQL) to another database (PostgreSQL).


Solution

  • Instead of using developer endpoints, you could start to develop your glue jobs locally. This saved us all the endpoint costs. This article helps you to set up everything locally.