AWS Glue Reviews & Product Details

AWS Glue simplifies ETL with its serverless architecture and tight integration with the AWS ecosystem. The built-in Data Catalog, schema discovery, and job automation features reduce operational overhead. It is highly scalable, cost-effective, and suitable for both batch and streaming workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One downside of AWS Glue is the job startup time, which can be slow for small workloads. Debugging Spark jobs is sometimes difficult, especially when logs are not very clear. Cost can increase if jobs are not optimized properly. Also, the UI can feel limited for complex transformations compared to full-scale Spark development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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