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AWS Glue

Composite Score

8.5 /10

CX Score

8.9 /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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2025 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2025

1 Top Rated Capabilities

0 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

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

79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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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?

1% Negative

5% Neutral

94% Positive

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Effective Service
Caring

Feature Ratings

Average 79

Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing

Batch Integration

Metadata Management

Administrative Features

Data Security

Data Virtualization

Synchronization and Replication

Multi Channel Support

Exception Handling and Notifications

Real Time Integration

API Management and Orchestration

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

AWS Glue Reviews

Abhishek M.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2024

serverless and cost friendly

Likeliness to Recommend

6 /10

What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?

spark support, logs in S3 and CloudWatch, IAM integration, serverless

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

serverless, glue 4.0 faster and easy to use

What do you dislike most about this product?

switching from other version is not easy, when updating CFT - parameters goes away

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

quick integration, secure and fast

Pros

Effective Service
Respectful
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product

Prakash U.

Role: Finance
Industry: Finance
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2024

VERY GOOD PRODUCT AND COST-EFFECTIVE FOR USERS

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?

IT IS EASY TO USE COMPARED TO ALL OTHER ETL TOOLS

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

QUICK DATA LOAD TOOL

What do you dislike most about this product?

NOTHING TO DISLIKE, BUT COST

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

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

AWS Glue

What is AWS Glue?

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

AWS Glue Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 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.

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.

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

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.

API Management and Orchestration Includes publishing, promoting and overseeing APIs and Orchestration Services.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Abhishek M.

serverless and cost friendly

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Prakash U.

VERY GOOD PRODUCT AND COST-EFFECTIVE FOR USERS

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Allen J.

Fantastic product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing

Batch Integration

Metadata Management

Administrative Features

Data Security

Data Virtualization

Synchronization and Replication

Multi Channel Support

Exception Handling and Notifications

Real Time Integration

API Management and Orchestration

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization