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AWS Glue

Composite Score

8.7 /10

CX Score

9.0 /10

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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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Awards & Recognition

AWS Glue won the following awards in the Data Integration category

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2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

Latest Award, 2024

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024

1 Top Rated Capabilities

0 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2023

AWS Glue Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+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?

2% Negative

5% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Effective Service
Caring

Feature Ratings

Average 79

Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing

Batch Integration

Administrative Features

Metadata Management

Data Security

Data Virtualization

Synchronization and Replication

Multi Channel Support

Exception Handling and Notifications

Real Time Integration

iPaaS

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Business Value Created

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

AWS Glue Reviews

Allen J.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Fantastic product

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?

AWS Glue stands out from other ETL and data integration solutions in several key ways, driven by its architecture, features, and integration with the AWS ecosystem. Here are the primary differentiators: Serverless Architecture AWS Glue is fully serverless, meaning that users do not have to provision, configure, or manage any servers. This eliminates a significant amount of the administrative burden associated with setting up and maintaining infrastructure, allowing developers and data engineers to focus more on the application logic rather than the underlying hardware.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Scalability and Flexibility The serverless nature of AWS Glue means that it automatically scales the computing resources needed to run ETL jobs, depending on the workload. This automatic scaling not only optimizes the processing time but also helps manage costs by allocating resources efficiently, without user intervention.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Pricing Model Complexity AWS Glue's pricing model is based on a combination of factors, including the number of Data Processing Units (DPUs) consumed by jobs and the duration those jobs run. Understanding how many DPUs your jobs will require and estimating the cost can be complex and not always straightforward, particularly for new users or for complex ETL jobs.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Understand the Pricing Model Before diving into AWS Glue, take the time to understand its pricing model. Know how charges are calculated based on Data Processing Units (DPUs) and job run times. Use the AWS pricing calculator to estimate costs and experiment with different scenarios to see how changes in your data processes might affect your bills.

Pros

Trustworthy
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable

Japanjot S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2023

"Good fully managed service for ETL"

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?

It works on the ETL interaction via mechanizing the revelation, classifying, and change of information, making it simple for clients to get ready and burden their information for investigation. With Paste, clients can zero in on information change and examination while passing on the framework the board to AWS

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

One of the prevalent administrations given by Amazon is AWS Paste, which is brilliant at moving information across different information stores and trading information for examination. For the benefits it offers, for example, clear versatility for handling enormous volumes of information and an essential and basic UI for the client experience, I viewed AWS Paste as very supportive in information mix

What do you dislike most about this product?

Setting up and using AWS Paste can be testing, particularly for people who are not talented in Flash or Python. Particularly for huge scope information handling assignments, AWS Paste can be expensive.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Information security Cost improvement

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Rohit V.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Communications
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Easy to manage and good product

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?

It is fully managed serverless service

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Manageed and serverless

What do you dislike most about this product?

Limited customization

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Its great for use

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

AWS Glue

What is AWS Glue?

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

AWS Glue Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+94 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love AWS Glue?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing Includes data cleansing, reconciliation, and profiling across multiple sources in batch mode.

Batch Integration Includes ability to schedule integration processes to run on a periodic basis to control the movement of data from a source to target.

Administrative Features Includes basic aspects of data extraction, transformation, and loading. Administrative console and process viewing, interruption, restart, cancel, and rollback.

Metadata Management A metadata layer makes reporting easy and eliminates the need for coding and SQL, allowing users to see and access information in simple business language.

Data Security Includes ability to hide sensitive data by masking with special characters or anonymous information.

Data Virtualization Includes ability to create views joining disparate data sources without the need for persistence.

Synchronization and Replication Includes the ability to accurately catch, reflect, and correct changes in data across multiple data stores.

Multi Channel Support The ability to support and connect with channels including Cloud Services, Big Data Platforms, web, mobile, social, IoT, wearables, etc.

Exception Handling and Notifications Ability to catch, report, and handle exceptions; includes transaction logging and event viewing.

Real Time Integration Able to integrate data in near-real time and handle movement of data from a source to target. Monitoring for changes in a data source in a non-invasive manner.

iPaaS Includes iPaaS (Cloud hosting) features and other advanced integration capabilities

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

AWS Glue Reviews

Allen J.

Fantastic product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Japanjot S.

"Good fully managed service for ETL"

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Rohit V.

Easy to manage and good product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing

Batch Integration

Administrative Features

Metadata Management

Data Security

Data Virtualization

Synchronization and Replication

Multi Channel Support

Exception Handling and Notifications

Real Time Integration

iPaaS

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Business Value Created

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization