What is AWS Glue?
AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes data preparation simpler, faster, and cheaper. You can discover and connect to over 70 diverse data sources, manage your data in a centralized data catalog, and visually create, run, and monitor ETL pipelines to load data into your data lakes. AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+96 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love AWS Glue?
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- Caring
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Effective Service
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Exception Handling and Notifications
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Real Time Integration
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Ease of Data Integration
Usability and Intuitiveness
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Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
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AWS Glue Reviews
Carlos Orlando C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Dec 2023
Great integration and cheap
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?
The effortless integration in the AWS environment
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
How it works with other services like athena
What do you dislike most about this product?
How hard it is to use the console interface
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Make sure to understand how it integrates with the rest of aws services
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Effective Service
RAHUL G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2023
Amazing ETL platform for data integration.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?
AWS Glue is cloud based and unlike informatica it has all the feature of ETL processes in a single platform.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
We can moniter the workflow and with the info of total rows & columns and total size used in the same platform.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Cost is expensive for the premium version which has all the ETL features.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are dealing with big data arriving from multiple number of data sources then integration of that data can be challenging but AWS Glue makes it easy.
Gbenga S.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2025
Powerful Cloud ETL with Room for Improvement鈥�
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?
Deep Integration with AWS Ecosystem
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I love the seamless integration with other AWS services like S3, Redshift, and Athena
What do you dislike most about this product?
Job startup times can be slow, which affects short or frequent workloads.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Ideal for teams already using AWS services who want a fully managed, serverless ETL solution, but be prepared for slower job startup times and limited non-AWS connectors.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
