A team creates a new AWS Glue batch ETL job from the console and leaves the timeout field at its default. After how long will Glue stop a run that is still executing?
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Answer: D
Glue batch ETL jobs default to a timeout of 2,880 minutes, which is 48 hours. If a run exceeds the configured timeout, Glue stops it and marks it as timed out. The team can lower the value to cap the cost of a runaway job, or set a longer value for a legitimately long transform. The 15-minute limit people associate with serverless compute belongs to Lambda, a different service.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Sixty minutes would cut off most real transforms, and it is not the default Glue applies to batch ETL jobs.
- B. Twelve hours appears as a limit in several other services, but it is not Glue's default timeout for batch ETL jobs.
- C. Twenty-four hours looks plausible, but it does not match Glue's default batch timeout of 2,880 minutes.