Reference Material:
https://ahana.io/answers/the-differences-between-aws-athena-and-aws-glue-ahana/
AWS Glue is also serverless, but more of an ecosystem of tools to allow you to easily do schema discovery and ETL with auto-generated scripts that can be modified either visually or via editing the script. The most commonly known components of Glue are Glue Metastore and Glue ETL. Glue Metastore is a serverless hive compatible metastore which can be used in lieu of your own managed Hive. Glue ETL on the other hand is a Spark service which allows customers to run Spark jobs without worrying about the configuration, manageability and operationalization of the underlying Spark infrastructure. There are other services such as Glue Data Wrangler which we will keep outside the scope of this discussion.
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