--- title: "AWS Glue Interactive Sessions now support Spark Connect for interactive workloads" url: https://daily.dev/posts/aws-glue-interactive-sessions-now-support-spark-connect-for-interactive-workloads-6jp9twrgq source_url: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/06/aws-glue-interactive-sessions-spark-connect-smus-notebooks type: article source: "AWS" published: 2026-06-17T20:07:27.106Z updated: 2026-06-17T20:07:41.445Z tags: ["aws", "apache-spark", "pyspark"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AWS Glue Interactive Sessions now support Spark Connect for interactive workloads **[AWS](https://daily.dev/sources/aws)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AWS Glue Interactive Sessions now support Apache Spark Connect, enabling developers to run Spark applications from local environments like Jupyter, VS Code, or Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio notebooks against AWS Glue's serverless infrastructure. The thin client architecture decouples the client from the Spark execution environment, supporting ad hoc data exploration, iterative debugging, and incremental PySpark development. It also provides real-time monitoring via Spark UI, history tracking, and session management through the AWS Glue API, CLI, or SDK. The feature is available across multiple AWS regions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Run Interactive Workloads on Amazon EMR Serverless with Spark Connect](https://daily.dev/posts/run-interactive-workloads-on-amazon-emr-serverless-with-spark-connect-kqea56k8q) · AWS · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Run interactive workloads on Amazon EMR on EC2 with Spark Connect](https://daily.dev/posts/run-interactive-workloads-on-amazon-emr-on-ec2-with-spark-connect-6faagxn6k) · AWS · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AWS Glue 5.1 is now available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud \(US\) Regions](https://daily.dev/posts/aws-glue-5-1-is-now-available-in-all-aws-commercial-and-aws-govcloud-us-regions-1mzfjt0az) · AWS · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#apache-spark](https://daily.dev/tags/apache-spark), [#pyspark](https://daily.dev/tags/pyspark) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/aws-glue-interactive-sessions-now-support-spark-connect-for-interactive-workloads-6jp9twrgq)