AWS GLUE 6.0 NOW AVAILABLE WITH 30% LOWER PRICE AND FULL APACHE ICEBERG V3 SUPPORT

Summary from the TLDR DevOps newsletter

AWS Glue 6.0 is now generally available in all AWS regions where Glue operates, with pricing 30% lower than previous versions. The release is built on Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.13, and Scala 2.13, and includes full support for the Apache Iceberg v3 specification via Iceberg 1.11.0. A new VARIANT data type with shredding support lets teams store and query JSON, logs, and event data without flattening schemas. No API changes are required to use the new version.