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
99 Plan to Renew
81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+94 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
- Friendly Negotiation
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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AWS Glue Reviews
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
Larisa A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Banking
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2025
Great Data integration across multiple clouds
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?
The integrated catalogue
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
the ETL and the catalogue.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The fact that it is serverless, and I can spin up a pipeline in 5 minutes.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Easy-to-use ETL tool that allows you to connect with multiple sources.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
Monisha K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2025
Useful legacy ETL tool ready for modernization
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?
Glue automatically handles provisioning, scaling, and optimization of ETL jobs, which removes the operational burden common in tools like Informatica, Talend, or Actian DataConnect.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Glue Studio’s visual interface is my favorite part because it makes complex ETL pipelines easier to build, test, and monitor.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The steep learning curve—especially around Spark configurations and debugging—can make AWS Glue challenging for beginners or those moving from simple GUI-based ETL tools.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you’re already invested in AWS and need a scalable, serverless ETL solution, AWS Glue is an excellent choice—but be prepared for a learning curve if you’re new to Spark or cloud-native data engineering.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Client Friendly Policies
