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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

Sriharsha K.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

AWS Glue: Transforming Data Integration with Ease

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?

AWS Glue operates on a serverless model, meaning users don’t have to manage infrastructure. This allows for automatic scaling, which helps reduce costs and streamline operations, especially during variable workloads and provides seamlessly integrates with other AWS services such as S3, Redshift, RDS, and Athena and includes a central metadata repository known as the AWS Glue Data Catalog, which automatically discovers and organizes data.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

One of the most appealing features of AWS Glue is its serverless nature. Users don’t need to manage any infrastructure, allowing teams to focus on developing their data workflows rather than handling server configurations and scaling issues and provides a user-friendly interface with a visual workflow editor, enabling users to create ETL jobs without extensive coding knowledge and it can handle large volumes of data and scale automatically as needed. This flexibility is essential for businesses experiencing growth.

What do you dislike most about this product?

AWS Glue can have a steep learning curve, especially for users unfamiliar with AWS services and Debugging jobs in AWS Glue can be challenging. The error messages are not always intuitive

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

AWS Glue works exceptionally well with other AWS services like S3, Redshift, RDS, and Athena. If your organization is already using AWS, Glue can streamline your data workflows and provide a cohesive environment for data management and designed to handle large volumes of data, making it suitable for enterprises that require scalability and provides powerful, it may have a learning curve, especially for users unfamiliar with AWS services. Proper training and exploration of documentation are essential to leverage its full potential.

Pros

Trustworthy
Client Friendly Policies
Fair
Altruistic

Nitin M.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Healthcare
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

Fab Product and Cost effective

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?

Cost effective and well architectural framework for efficient data pipeline.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Support for data stored across different Amazon RDS

What do you dislike most about this product?

Workflow customisation and data engineering needs improvement

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Has to be good in data engineering expertise

Pros

Respectful
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing

Cons

Under Delivered
Less Inspiring
Less Transparent

Abhishek M.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2024

good ELT service on cloud

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?

integration with aws services

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

glue serverless, option to choose on-demand GPU,

What do you dislike most about this product?

have been getting this error, not enough IP address

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

glue jobs are essentials for your data services

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Caring
Client Friendly Policies

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

Sriharsha K.

AWS Glue: Transforming Data Integration with Ease

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Nitin M.

Fab Product and Cost effective

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Abhishek M.

good ELT service on cloud

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

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Metadata Management

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Data Virtualization

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Multi Channel Support

Exception Handling and Notifications

Real Time Integration

iPaaS

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