AWS Glue now supports wheel files as dependencies for Glue Python Shell jobs

Posted on: Sep 26, 2019

Starting today, you can add python dependencies to AWS Glue Python Shell jobs using wheel files, enabling you to take advantage of new capabilities of the wheel packaging format. Previously, you were only able to add python dependencies using egg files to AWS Glue Python Shell jobs.  

This feature is now available in all the AWS regions where AWS Glue is available. 

To learn more about how you can take advantage of this feature, please visit our documentation.