AWS Glue Connector

Manage AWS Glue crawlers, jobs and triggers

Connections

AWS Glue Access Key and Secret

Authenticates requests to AWS Glue using an API Key and API Secret.

An AWS IAM access key pair is required to interact with AWS Glue. Make sure that the key pair you generate in AWS has proper permissions to the AWS Glue resources you want to access. Read more about Glue IAM actions in the AWS docs.

Input	Comments	Default
Access Key ID	An AWS IAM Access Key ID
Secret Access Key	An AWS IAM Secret Access Key

AWS Role ARN

Connect to AWS using an assumed role

To enable the IAM role authentication begin by logging into the AWS Console and navigate to Identity and Access Management (IAM).

To create an ARN user and generate credentials:

Navigate to Users and select Create User.

Provide a User name and check the box providing them user access to the AWS Management Console if needed.
Once completed with the User creation, copy the ARN provided in the summary for a later step.

To obtain the ARN for an existing User, click on the designated username from the Users page and the ARN will be provided in the summary section.
From the summary section, select Create access key

Select Third-party service as the access key type and select next.
Set a description and select create access key.
Copy the Access Key and Secret access key and enter those into the connection configuration of your integration along with the ARN.

To create and assign a user a role:

Navigate to Roles and select Create Role.

Select Custom Trust Policy for the Trusted entity types
Copy the following statement into the statement console. Making sure to replace the ARN with the user's actual ARN from the previous section

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "AWS": "ARN"
      },
      "Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
    }
  ]
}

When adding permissions provide the AWSGlueConsoleFullAccess permission
Complete remaining steps and select Create Role

Input	Comments	Default
Role ARN	An AWS IAM Role ARN
Access Key ID	An AWS IAM Access Key ID
Secret Access Key	An AWS IAM Secret Access Key
External ID	Provides enhanced security measures to the connection. Optional, but recommended. Please check AWS docs for more information.

Actions

Get Job Run

Retrieves the metadata for a given job run.

Input	Comments	Default
AWS Region	AWS provides services in multiple regions, like us-west-2 or eu-west-1.
Name	Provide a string value for the name (NOT the ARN).
Run Id	Provide a string value for the run Id.
Connection

List Crawlers

List Crawlers available in AWS Glue

Input	Comments	Default
AWS Region	AWS provides services in multiple regions, like us-west-2 or eu-west-1.
Max Items	Provide an integer value for the maximum amount of items that will be returned. Provide a value from 1 to 50.
Marker	Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of results
Connection

List Jobs

List job schemas available in AWS Glue

Input	Comments	Default
AWS Region	AWS provides services in multiple regions, like us-west-2 or eu-west-1.
Marker	Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of results
Max Items	Provide an integer value for the maximum amount of items that will be returned. Provide a value from 1 to 50.
Connection

List Triggers

List the names of all triggers in the account.

Input	Comments	Default
AWS Region	AWS provides services in multiple regions, like us-west-2 or eu-west-1.
Max Items	Provide an integer value for the maximum amount of items that will be returned. Provide a value from 1 to 50.
Marker	Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of results
Connection

Start Crawler

Starts an existing crawler in AWS Glue.

Input	Comments	Default
AWS Region	AWS provides services in multiple regions, like us-west-2 or eu-west-1.
Name	Provide a string value for the name (NOT the ARN).
Connection

Start Job Run

Starts a job run using a AWS Glue job definition.

Input	Comments	Default
AWS Region	AWS provides services in multiple regions, like us-west-2 or eu-west-1.
Name	Provide a string value for the name (NOT the ARN).
Allocated Capacity	The number of AWS Glue data processing units (DPUs) that can be allocated when this job runs. If this is omitted, Glue will use the default number of DPUs configured for your job.
Security Configuration	The name of the SecurityConfiguration structure to be used with this job. This can be left blank if you do not have a security configuration.
args	Optional key value parameters to pass into a job.
Connection

Start Trigger

Starts an existing trigger in AWS Glue.

Input	Comments	Default
AWS Region	AWS provides services in multiple regions, like us-west-2 or eu-west-1.
Name	Provide a string value for the name (NOT the ARN).
Connection

Stop Crawler

If the specified crawler is running, stops the crawl

Input	Comments	Default
AWS Region	AWS provides services in multiple regions, like us-west-2 or eu-west-1.
Name	Provide a string value for the name (NOT the ARN).
Connection

Stop Job Run

Stops one or more job runs for a specified job definition

Input	Comments	Default
AWS Region	AWS provides services in multiple regions, like us-west-2 or eu-west-1.
Name	Provide a string value for the name (NOT the ARN).
Job Run Ids	Provide a list of job run Ids
Connection

Stop trigger

Stops a specified trigger

Input	Comments	Default
AWS Region	AWS provides services in multiple regions, like us-west-2 or eu-west-1.
Name	Provide a string value for the name (NOT the ARN).
Connection

Connections​

AWS Glue Access Key and Secret​

AWS Role ARN​

Actions​

Get Job Run​

List Crawlers​

List Jobs​

List Triggers​

Start Crawler​

Start Job Run​

Start Trigger​

Stop Crawler​

Stop Job Run​

Stop trigger​