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
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing
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Real Time Integration
API Management and Orchestration
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Data Integration
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Quality of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Availability and Quality of Training
Usability and Intuitiveness
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
Submitted Aug 2024
serverless and cost friendly
Likeliness to Recommend
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
Submitted Jul 2024
VERY GOOD PRODUCT AND COST-EFFECTIVE FOR USERS
Likeliness to Recommend
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
Submitted Apr 2024
Fantastic product
Likeliness to Recommend
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
