Compare AWS Glue and Amazon Redshift 
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At a Glance
Market Segments
Enterprise (47.6% of reviews)
Mid-Market (40.0% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
$1.22 - $3.26 Per hour
AWS Glue
Star Rating
(199)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (47.6% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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Star Rating
(400)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (40.0% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
$1.22 - $3.26 Per hour
Browse all 6 pricing plansAWS Glue vs Amazon Redshift
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Amazon Redshift easier to use and administer. However, reviewers felt that AWS Glue was easier to do business with overall. Finally, reviewers felt that the products are equally easy to set up.
- Reviewers felt that Amazon Redshift meets the needs of their business better than AWS Glue.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Amazon Redshift is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of AWS Glue over Amazon Redshift.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
AWS Glue
No pricing availableAmazon Redshift
RA3.4xlarge
$1.22 - $3.26
Per hour
On-demand, 1-Year, or 3-Year Terms
- Commit to save up to 34%
Free Trial
AWS Glue
Free Trial is available
Amazon Redshift
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.5
156
8.7
284
Ease of Use
8.4
159
8.7
284
Ease of Setup
8.6
74
8.6
141
Ease of Admin
8.3
67
8.4
129
Quality of Support
8.3
154
8.5
267
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.8
67
8.7
128
Product Direction (% positive)
9.0
155
8.9
255
Features by Category
Data Governance
8.5
16
Not enough data
8.8
14
Not enough data
8.7
14
Not enough data
Data Preparation
8.2
17
Not enough data
8.9
15
Not enough data
8.9
16
Not enough data
8.8
18
Not enough data
Collaboration
8.2
16
Not enough data
9.0
16
Not enough data
8.9
16
Not enough data
8.6
18
Not enough data
Artificial Intelligence
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Generative AI
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Machine Learning Data Catalog
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Data Source Access
8.5
60
Not enough data
8.4
61
Not enough data
8.5
57
Not enough data
Data Interaction
8.4
58
Not enough data
8.5
62
Not enough data
8.3
61
Not enough data
8.8
61
Not enough data
8.6
54
Not enough data
8.9
59
Not enough data
8.6
57
Not enough data
8.3
58
Not enough data
Data Exporting
8.6
58
Not enough data
8.2
58
Not enough data
8.4
61
Not enough data
Generative AI
6.9
8
Not enough data
Administration
9.1
23
Not enough data
9.0
23
Not enough data
9.1
25
Not enough data
Federation
9.1
24
Not enough data
9.2
23
Not enough data
8.9
22
Not enough data
8.9
22
Not enough data
Transformation
8.7
24
Not enough data
9.1
23
Not enough data
8.6
24
Not enough data
Management
8.7
61
Not enough data
8.7
56
Not enough data
Functionality
9.0
67
Not enough data
8.9
72
Not enough data
9.2
70
Not enough data
8.8
67
Not enough data
8.9
68
Not enough data
Management
9.1
18
Not enough data
9.0
19
Not enough data
9.1
18
Not enough data
9.1
17
Not enough data
Solution Provision
9.0
16
Not enough data
8.8
15
Not enough data
8.9
16
Not enough data
Data Management
Not enough data
8.8
135
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
125
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
131
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.0
127
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.6
102
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.3
119
|
Verified
Integration
Not enough data
7.9
101
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
129
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.6
119
|
Verified
Deployment
Not enough data
8.1
102
Not enough data
8.9
131
|
Verified
Performance
Not enough data
8.9
136
|
Verified
Security
Not enough data
8.7
126
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
128
|
Verified
Generative AI
Not enough data
7.3
20
Not enough data
7.2
19
Storage
Not enough data
8.4
53
Not enough data
8.4
56
Availability
Not enough data
8.6
47
Not enough data
8.2
50
Not enough data
8.4
48
Performance
Not enough data
8.2
48
Security
Not enough data
8.7
47
Not enough data
8.4
52
Not enough data
8.1
47
Not enough data
8.5
48
Support
Not enough data
7.9
43
Not enough data
8.5
47
Agentic AI - AWS Marketplace
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Reporting
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Security
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
AWS Glue and Amazon Redshift are categorized as Big Data Integration Platforms
Unique Categories
AWS Glue is categorized as AWS Marketplace, Data Replication, Data Virtualization, Data Preparation, Machine Learning Data Catalog, and ETL Tools
Amazon Redshift is categorized as Columnar Databases and Data Warehouse
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
AWS Glue
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Amazon Redshift
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
18.3%
Computer Software
14.1%
Financial Services
6.3%
Hospital & Health Care
5.8%
Computer & Network Security
4.2%
Other
51.3%
Information Technology and Services
15.3%
Computer Software
12.6%
Financial Services
7.7%
Retail
5.2%
Marketing and Advertising
4.7%
Other
54.5%
Discussions
What does AWS Glue do?
2 Comments
SG
AWS Glue helps you build a data pipeline which can be used for data visualization or storing the data after transforming it in glue using pyspark.
it can...Read more
What are the main components of AWS Glue?
2 Comments
MR
AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service that simplifies the process of preparing and loading data for analytics. Its...Read more
What are the features of glue?
1 Comment
RV
AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service offered by Amazon Web Services.
Features of AWS glue are
1.Data Catalog: AWS Glue...Read more
Should I use with a data mart for a frontend tool that make request on it ?
3 Comments
NM
Hi Mehdi
Can you elaborate your question?
AWS Redshift is a DataBase/Data Warehouse service, which is Ideal for Analytical use cases.
You can...Read more
When can I use Amazon redshift?
3 Comments
PG
Redshift is big data warehousing solution to handle petabytes of data and also for real time decisions. If you want highly optimized data warehousing...Read more
What are the characteristics of redshift?
2 Comments
AK
Redshift is mainly used for Big data and analytics to store the data in columner format. Retrieve the data is very fast and parallel processing also most...Read more
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