AWS Glue adds large and memory-optimized workers in Spain
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AWS Glue has introduced large and memory-optimized worker types in the Europe (Spain) region. These new options, including G.12X, G.16X, R.1X, R.2X, R.4X, and R.8X, provide enhanced compute and memory capabilities to handle more complex and data-intensive processing workloads. Customers can select these workers via AWS Glue Studio, notebooks, Visual ETL, or the Glue Job APIs.
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https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/aws-glue-larger-memory-intensive-workers-spain