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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87 Likeliness to Recommend
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99 Plan to Renew
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79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+95 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?
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Respectful
- Reliable
- Effective Service
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AWS Glue Reviews
Abhishek P.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2024
Fantastic Product for the ETL Jobs
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?
AWS Glue has cloud support, and I have to pay for the ETL jobs I run on it, and its compatibility with others is good. I can use crawlers to detect the schema of my database and make a new one out of it
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
i Feel my bestest aspect of the Application is transfering of the data annoy free and very cleanly without any error in any database schema i define
What do you dislike most about this product?
Python and Scala are only the two programming languages supported in the AWS glue for now, which i think should be increased to include other programming languages.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend that you use this product with full trust, as it supports all the databases and ETL Jobs.
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Saves Time
- Acts with Integrity
- Appreciates Incumbent Status
Ujjwal A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2026
reliable serverless ETL tool for building pipeline
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?
The key difference is that AWS Glue is fully serverless and can easily integrate with other AWS resources such as S3, Athena, and Redshift. It simplifies the infrastructure management and makes the development of scalable ETL workflows easier.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The serverless architecture and automatic scaling make it easy to run ETL jobs without managing infrastructure. Integration with other AWS data services is also very easy for use.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Debugging ETL jobs can sometimes be difficult, and understanding errors from logs takes time. Cost can also increase if jobs run frequently or process large volume of data.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It works best if your data platform is already on AWS. Plan job scheduling and monitoring carefully to manage costs and use the Glue Data Catalog effectively.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Trustworthy
- Security Protects
Cons
- Vendor's Interest First
- Less Generous
- Vendor Friendly Policies
Pranav R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2025
AWS Glue excels in serverless data cataloging.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?
Glue prioritizes ETL/ELT via Spark jobs with auto-scaling and schema discovery, avoiding infrastructure management, while Azure Data Factory (ADF) offers visual low-code orchestration for diverse pipelines.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
AWS Glue's standout aspect is its fully serverless ETL with automatic schema discovery.
What do you dislike most about this product?
AWS Glue's biggest drawback is its batch-only processing model with no native real-time streaming or incremental syncs.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Start with AWS Glue's free tier for proof-of-concept ETL jobs on S3 data to test serverless scaling.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Altruistic
- Acts with Integrity
