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Time to Implement

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Return on Investment

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AWS Glue Reviews (199)

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Users consistently praise AWS Glue for its ease of use and seamless integration with other AWS services, making data management and ETL processes straightforward. The serverless architecture and automatic scaling are also highlighted as significant benefits, allowing users to focus on data rather than infrastructure. However, some users note a common limitation with slow startup times for jobs, which can impact efficiency.

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Caleb F.
CF
Data & IA Specialist
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"AWS Glue: Scalable and automated ETL with seamless integration into the AWS ecosystem"
What do you like best about AWS Glue?

What I value most about AWS Glue is that it allows building and automating ETL processes within the AWS ecosystem without having to manage infrastructure directly. The integration with services like S3, Athena, IAM, Glue Data Catalog, and Step Functions greatly facilitates the orchestration of data pipelines. It is also useful to be able to work with jobs in PySpark and maintain a more scalable architecture for data processing and transformation. In general, it reduces operational effort and speeds up the implementation of pipelines in cloud environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Glue?

What I like the least is that debugging errors is not always straightforward, especially in jobs with PySpark or when configuration issues related to permissions, network, or catalogs arise. The learning curve can also be somewhat steep if you don't have prior experience with data services in AWS. Additionally, some startup and execution times can feel heavy for small loads, and monitoring could be clearer in certain scenarios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

akhil k.
AK
Senior Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"AWS Glue’s Catalog and Crawlers Make Full and Incremental Loads Easy"
What do you like best about AWS Glue?

The catalog and the crawling services that Glue has make it very easy to design both full and incremental loads. it is very easy and everything can be done from the AWS Glue UI screen itself, thats the best part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Glue?

We have millions of databases and millions of tables in each database, and it’s very difficult to search and get to the table we’re looking for because Glue only shows the first 100 records. As a result, this takes a lot of time, and consumers have to wait until it’s done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alankrita P.
AP
Software Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"A Reliable Serverless ETL Tool for Scalable Data Processing"
What do you like best about AWS Glue?

What I like most about AWS Glue is that it is a fully managed ETL service, so there is very little infrastructure to worry about. It integrates seamlessly with other AWS services like S3, Athena, Redshift, and Lake Formation, which makes data movement and transformation very smooth. The Glue Data Catalog is especially useful because it automatically discovers and organizes data, saving a lot of manual effort. The serverless nature and auto-scaling also help optimize costs since we only pay for what we use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Glue?

One challenge with AWS Glue is the learning curve, especially for beginners who are new to Spark or AWS services. Debugging Glue jobs can sometimes be difficult because the error messages are not always very clear. Job startup time can also feel a bit slow for smaller workloads. Additionally, costs can increase quickly if jobs are not optimized properly, so monitoring and tuning are important. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Neeraj J.
NJ
Technical Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Serverless, Pay-as-You-Run Jobs with Flexible Execution Engines"
What do you like best about AWS Glue?

It’s serverless, and you pay only as you run the jobs. It also provides multiple execution engines, along with automatic code generation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Glue?

Debugging is a little difficult, but otherwise it’s good overall and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jayalakshmi D.
JD
Senior Customer success Executive
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Simplifies Data Discovery and Preparation with Strong Quality & Schema Management"
What do you like best about AWS Glue?

It simplifies discovering, preparing, and combining data for analytics, machine learning, and application development and provides features like data quality, schema management . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Glue?

It gets start-up times, complex debugging processes. sometimes taking several minutes to start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anshul J.
AJ
Analyst
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"My experience with AWS Glue"
What do you like best about AWS Glue?

Easy to trace the error in the script through runs.

My team build a framework to fetch data from different platform through AWS Glue and stores them in S3 in the file format mention by us. That make our integration and fetching data a lot easier.

Sppourt frequent data load.

It is easy to implement.

Good customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Glue?

Many a time I face server/connectivity issue when using glue and our job get blocked due to that.

Does not support xml file formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sourab S.
SS
Data Analyst
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Glue- Best Integration Tool"
What do you like best about AWS Glue?

Absolutly love Glue for its functionality. Provides everything needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Glue?

The legacy version is now not accesible. Also, the documenttation could be beeter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sonali A.
SA
Senior Data Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"AWS Glue - mediocre ETL tool"
What do you like best about AWS Glue?

AWS Glue integrates very well with AWS services which are now widely being used by almost every company,since it's AWS original tool,it easily integrates with all others like S3 and redshift. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Glue?

AWS Glue is not user friendly,the transformation components that we have are not useful in different scenarios and we need to use custom transformation for everything,including even very basic operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vijay K.
VK
Senior Human Resource Executive
Manufacturing
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Dont take take tension-AWS is here"
What do you like best about AWS Glue?

I like its service. easy to understand and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Glue?

Yet, I didn't find anything bad foe AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohammed R.
MR
Product Delivery Lead
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"GLUE for best ETL Operations"
What do you like best about AWS Glue?

Visually Effective and ease to use on ETL operation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Glue?

Selection on Data quality and more system transformation required Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

16 months

Average Discount

13%

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