Defining the permissions for a Glue job

In this section, we are going to define the required permissions for a Glue job:

1. Open the AWS IAM service.
2. Click Roles on the left-hand side:

Figure 11.7 – List of IAM services

3. Click Create role:

Figure 11.8 – Create role

4. Under Use case, select Glue:

Figure 11.9 – Selecting Glue

5. On the next page, select AmazonS3FullAccess and CloudWatchFullAccess under Policy name:

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Figure 11.10 – S3 and CloudWatch access

6. Give a name for the role that we are creating, then you can click Create role to finish the role creation:

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Figure 11.11 – Role name and creation

We have created the required role for an AWS Glue job. In the next step, we will create...