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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Emotional Footprint Overview
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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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Administrative Features
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Multi-Channel Support
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Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing
Data Security
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Pipeline Orchestration & Workflow
Real-Time Integration & CDC
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Ease of Data Integration
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Ease of Implementation
Ease of IT Administration
Quality of Features
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Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Customization
Breadth of Features
AWS Glue Reviews
Ryan M. Z.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Utilities
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2026
Honest feedback
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?
Usability and features help improve the overall experience
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The usability making the features easy to find for coordination and integration
What do you dislike most about this product?
The thing I dislike the most about the product is the price, but I don’t think that’s a fair assessment
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Make sure you have a checklist in place before you use the product and have someone who’s gonna support it for sustainability
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Saves Time
Aayushman S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2026
Efficient Data Workflows Start with AWS Glue
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?
AWS Glue is fully serverless which means I don't have to manage any infrastructure, and it scales automatically with your workloads that's save my time. AWS Glue is it's tight intergation with the AWS ecosystem . It's works seamlessly with Amazon S3, Amazon Athena , Amazon Redshirt and other AWS services. That makes building end to end that advantages for me because data pipelines much smoother compared to tools that are more standalone or cloud agnostic .
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
AWS Glue makes buliding and managing data pipelines feel almost effortless that really I appreciate . It's also the automatic data keeps track of tables schemas, and metadata across multiple sources which saves my ton of time and when intergation data from different system that reduce errors.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I honestly say its some of pricing nuances are surprised to me and AWS Glue is incredibly powerful but it feels a bit opaque at times. Sinces it's fully serverless, I don't get direct to the underlying infrastructure which makes troubleshooting performance issue or inderu why a job ran slower than ecpected can be tricky. But it's gives me Brilliant performance which i thankful to AWS Glue.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommendation, Start by clearly defining your data pipeline needs and understanding your data sources because Glue is extremely flexible and scalable but that flexibility can be overwhelming of you try to dive in without a plan and I also suggest leveraging Glue's visual ETL tools for smaller workflows while gradually incorporating custom Python or Scala scripts for more complex transformation because that balance helps my teams get value quickly without being bogged down in code from day one. One things my personal experience which I assume that you should keep in mind to pay attention to data cataloging and schema management early.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Trustworthy
- Fair
Cons
- Less Effective Service
Ujjwal A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2026
reliable serverless ETL tool for building pipeline
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?
The key difference is that AWS Glue is fully serverless and can easily integrate with other AWS resources such as S3, Athena, and Redshift. It simplifies the infrastructure management and makes the development of scalable ETL workflows easier.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The serverless architecture and automatic scaling make it easy to run ETL jobs without managing infrastructure. Integration with other AWS data services is also very easy for use.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Debugging ETL jobs can sometimes be difficult, and understanding errors from logs takes time. Cost can also increase if jobs run frequently or process large volume of data.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It works best if your data platform is already on AWS. Plan job scheduling and monitoring carefully to manage costs and use the Glue Data Catalog effectively.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Trustworthy
- Security Protects
Cons
- Vendor's Interest First
- Less Generous
- Vendor Friendly Policies
