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Amazon S3
5 registry resources · 2 skills, 2 projects · roadmap: Cloud, Data Processing
What this topic covers
DE//AGENT currently lists 5 resources under Amazon S3: 2 skills, 2 projects, 1 template. Everything below is derived from the live registry — counts, capabilities, verification state and security posture come from the curated records, never from marketing copy.
What you can learn here
Documented learning objectives across these resources:
- Size Glue workers from data volume, not habit — via AWS Glue Job Reviewer
- Use job bookmarks correctly — via AWS Glue Job Reviewer
- Avoid full-table reprocessing from catalogue mistakes — via AWS Glue Job Reviewer
- Read the scanned-bytes metric per query — via Athena Partition Advisor
- Apply partition projection for high-cardinality columns — via Athena Partition Advisor
- Compact small files to cut per-request overhead — via Athena Partition Advisor
- Handle pagination, retries and rate limits correctly — via API → S3 → Spark → Parquet
- Write an idempotent partition overwrite — via API → S3 → Spark → Parquet
4 more objectives live on the individual resource pages.
Where this fits in the learning roadmap
These resources map to stages: Cloud (4), Data Processing (1). Follow the four-phase roadmap to place this topic inside a progression instead of learning it in isolation.
Compare the registry's options
Every entry, its shape and its trust state — sorted by the registry's composite score. This table is the honest version of a marketing comparison: no sponsored placements, no unverifiable claims.
| Resource | Type | Difficulty | Verification | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Glue Job Reviewer | Skill | intermediate | community flags | 37 |
| Athena Partition Advisor | Skill | intermediate | community flags | 33.4 |
| API → S3 → Spark → Parquet | Project | intermediate | community flags | 32.15 |
| S3 → Glue → Athena | Project | intermediate | community flags | 30.15 |
| Terraform AWS Data Platform | Template | advanced | community flags | 25.6 |
How scores are computed: source quality score.
Where to start
Highest composite score first:
- AWS Glue Job Reviewer score 37 — intermediate
- Athena Partition Advisor score 33.4 — intermediate
- API → S3 → Spark → Parquet score 32.15 — intermediate
Scores rank provenance, completeness and trust — read how verification works before adopting anything.
Good fits
Reach for these with production experience: Terraform AWS Data Platform.
Cautions and limitations
Security-flagged entries: AWS Glue Job Reviewer (2 flags), Athena Partition Advisor (3 flags), API → S3 → Spark → Parquet (5 flags), S3 → Glue → Athena (5 flags), Terraform AWS Data Platform (5 flags). Flags mean the record declares capabilities like credential use or write access — read the security posture on each page before connecting.
Production use cases
- AWS Glue Job Reviewer — Reviews Glue/Spark jobs for worker sizing, job bookmarks, partition pruning, and the catalogue/schema pitfalls that cause silent full reprocessing. details
- Athena Partition Advisor — Recommends partition projection, bucketing or file-layout changes to reduce Athena bytes-scanned, and writes the projection DDL. details
- API → S3 → Spark → Parquet — Land a paginated REST API into S3 raw, transform with PySpark into partitioned Parquet, and make the whole thing idempotent and testable offline. details
- S3 → Glue → Athena — A serverless, query-in-place pattern: land Parquet in S3, catalogue it with Glue, and query with Athena while keeping scanned bytes (and cost) low. details
Install and inspect
Real install commands from the registry — read the source before running any of them:
npx de-agent-platform add aws-glue-job-reviewerAWS Glue Job Reviewer — review first
npx de-agent-platform add athena-partition-advisorAthena Partition Advisor — review first
amp template new de-agent/terraform-aws-data-platform ./infraTerraform AWS Data Platform — review first
Further study
Official source: Amazon S3 — start there for the canonical documentation, then come back for the vetted registry entries.
Adjacent topics: AWS Glue (4 shared), Amazon Athena (3 shared), Apache Parquet (2 shared), Apache Spark (2 shared), Terraform (2 shared), cost (2 shared).
Study path: the roadmap places this topic in a progression · the scoring model explains the numbers · the trust rule catalog shows every security check these entries passed through.
Full resource list
| Resource | Type | Score |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Glue Job Reviewer | Skill | 37 |
| Athena Partition Advisor | Skill | 33.4 |
| API → S3 → Spark → Parquet | Project | 32.15 |
| S3 → Glue → Athena | Project | 30.15 |
| Terraform AWS Data Platform | Template | 25.6 |