# AWS makes Glue 5.1 available in European Sovereign Cloud

_Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:26 PM EDT · Products, Security · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

AWS announced that Glue 5.1 is available in its European Sovereign Cloud Region. The serverless data-integration service now uses Spark 3.5.6, Python 3.11 and Scala 2.12.18, updates Hudi, Iceberg and Delta Lake support, and adds Iceberg format version 3 features. It also extends Lake Formation fine-grained access control to write operations for Spark DataFrames and Spark SQL, where it was previously limited to reads.

## Sources

- [Recent Announcements](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/aws-glue-5-1-european-sovereign-cloud)

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