---
title: "Build Delta Lake using Glue PySpark, S3 & Athena"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/build-delta-lake-using-glue-pyspark-s3-athena-4skai1kas
source_url: https://aws.plainenglish.io/build-delta-lake-using-glue-pyspark-s3-athena-0d98c9acef36
type: article
source: "AWS in Plain English"
published: 2024-04-30T15:58:50.649Z
updated: 2024-05-09T07:52:51.999Z
tags: ["aws", "aws-s3", "pyspark"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 3
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Build Delta Lake using Glue PySpark, S3 & Athena

**[AWS in Plain English](https://daily.dev/sources/awsplainenglish)** · 3 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Learn how to build a Delta Lake using Glue PySpark, S3, and Athena for efficient data processing and analysis. A Lakehouse is created for handling large-scale data transformations. Glue PySpark reads raw data from S3 and writes it to a different location, while Athena enables SQL querying capabilities. Raw data can be downloaded for testing purposes.

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Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#aws-s3](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-s3), [#pyspark](https://daily.dev/tags/pyspark)

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