--- title: AWS Glue Reviews meta_title: 'AWS Glue Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 202 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS Glue works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 202 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Cloud Data Integration url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-data-integration --- # AWS Glue Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [ETL Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/etl-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 202 ## About AWS Glue AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easier for analytics users to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for analytics, machine learning, and application develop-ment. You can discover and connect to 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. You can im-mediately search and query catalogued data using Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift Spectrum. ## AWS Glue Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of AWS Glue, finding it simple and effective for ETL operations. (6 reviews) - Users appreciate the **seamless integration capabilities** of AWS Glue, enhancing data movement and analytics efficiency. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **fully managed ETL service** of AWS Glue, enjoying seamless integration and ease of use. (3 reviews) - Users love AWS Glue for its **simplified data preparation and rich features** , enhancing analytics and machine learning processes. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of implementation** in AWS Glue, enhancing their experience in building data integration frameworks. (3 reviews) - Users value the **seamless cloud integration** of AWS Glue, which simplifies data movement and transformation across services. (2 reviews) - Users value the **automatic data discovery and organization** of AWS Glue's Data Catalog, enhancing efficiency and saving time. (2 reviews) - Users value the **data lineage capabilities** of AWS Glue, streamlining data discovery and preparation efficiently. (2 reviews) - Data Storage (2 reviews) - Users value the **easy integrations** of AWS Glue with AWS services, enhancing data handling across platforms effortlessly. (2 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience **slow performance** with AWS Glue, noting long start-up times and complex debugging challenges. (3 reviews) - Users find **debugging difficult** due to unclear error messages and a steep learning curve with AWS Glue. (2 reviews) - Users face **difficult debugging** issues with AWS Glue due to unclear error messages and complex processes during job execution. (2 reviews) - Users experience **performance issues** with AWS Glue, noting slow startup times and challenging debugging processes. (2 reviews) - Users face **time-consuming startup and debugging processes** with AWS Glue, impacting efficiency and user experience. (2 reviews) - Users struggle with **access control limitations** due to the legacy version being inaccessible and inadequate documentation. (1 reviews) - Users often experience **compatibility issues** with AWS Glue, impacting job execution and limiting file format support. (1 reviews) - Complexity (1 reviews) - Users face challenges with **complex transformations** in AWS Glue, leading to concerns about data quality and system efficiency. (1 reviews) - Users often experience **connection issues** with AWS Glue, which can block jobs and hinder workflow efficiency. (1 reviews) ## AWS Glue Reviews ### 1. AWS Glue - mediocre ETL tool **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sonali A. | Senior Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2024 **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. **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. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS Glue is being used for ETL taking the source data from S3 and migrating the data from different sources like S3 to PostgresSQL,it works wonders for huge volume of data and takes less time compared to other options available.In our project we are migrating the automobile data from S3 to Postgresql ### 2. Half cooked ETL tool **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** The advantage that I see of using gule is that it has better integration with the AWS cloud. It is cost efficient as it's able to read data on AWS, and need not to provide data outbound network cost. Also I like how it's able to identify the schema of the data in S3 bucket using the data catalogue. I also like that it's a low code platform where I need to only worry about the main ETL logic and not the other components of code that are used to extract, write of data and its server less. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** There are less transformation logics that are available in gule. Also the time and knowledge needed to setup glue for the first time is quite high and doesn't look seemless as compared to the likes of matallion. There are very few glue resources available to study and get into using this product. The community is also very small hence finding answers to the question is quite difficult. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** The fact that it's a AWS offering it makes easier to access the data from other AWS services used like RDS, S3 etc. Since it's on cloud and is server less it's easy to scale up and down as required. From cost perspective as well since we pay for the only time that we have used the service its very cost effective. ### 3. Glue ETL tool - pros and cons **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** being serverless, programmatic. can easily control how much resources we want to be used based on the need. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** over the time, glue gets costlier. it will vendor lock into aws. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** a quick cloud native etl tool helping data transformations programmatically. data in s3 buckets can be easily transformed and prepared to be loaded either into redshift or to s3 bucket again, cataloged by glue. ### 4. Tool that Eases the Data Engineering **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Features like integration with S3, Fluid User interface and AWS Glue Studio, which has the Visual representation of the Glue transformation layer, are what I like most about the AWS Glue. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Honestly, I like how efficient it is, and the only thing that I dislike about AWS Glue is its lack of proper documentation. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped us to overcome most of our ETL pipeline setup challenges and offered us managed and efficient ETL tool to solve our use case ### 5. I have been using glue for quite sometime. I see the lack of flexibility as compared to the EMR **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Orchestration, pay only for the resources used. It simplifies logging and monitoring **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Limited to AWS ecosystem, difficult to combine steam and batch **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data ingestion ### 6. Great product **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Best ETL tool for large project and easy to use. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Frontend is complicated for user deviation from industry standards **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping in data preparation ### 7. There are many components yet to be added to glue studio **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** It can easily integrate with aws ecosystem. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Commonly used ETL components are not available in AWS glue. For example, SQL component. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had requirement to migrate Oracle and Informatica to Redshift and AWS glue respectively. We have used AWS glue console instead of Studio. ### 8. Glue **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** developer friendly, cheaper, ease of use **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** no dashboards, no visualizations, complex for BDMs **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analytics ### 9. Easy ETL with a few clicks **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** The one thing I love about AWS Glue is that we are using to transform our dynamodb application data into a relation database that reporting tools like tableau and looker can use easily. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** The documentation and sample code around it is horrible. Usually, I raise an support ticket to resolve my issues. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** If you want to use an ETL in AWS then Glue is your answer. We have used data pipeline and it was too much but with glue it meets our needs. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Taking unstructured data and making it an structured format for data virtulizations. ### 10. The Service is good, can become better **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** nilesh k. | Software Engineering Manager 1, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** The service is good in a servless architecture. The glue perfomes the etl spark jobs perfectly well. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** the service takes a lot of time to provision the servers. the insights in the glue-assembly-jar is not there. We face lot of dependency conflicts. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** we wanted to built a serverless data processing pipeline. Glue fits in well there. ### 11. Glue strengthens certain ETL pipelines. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maulik P. | Architect - Big Data and Cloud, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Glue Data Catalog Catalog as a service for microservices **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Unable to collect a portion of the data **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Serverless ETL pipelines Data Democracy ### 12. Would love to use when it is hardened **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** S3 data discoverability, flexible schema support **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Unstable ETL, lack of integration with external data catalogs **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** ETL and ad-hoc data analysis ## AWS Glue Discussions - [What is AWS Glue and how it works?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-aws-glue-and-how-it-works) - 1 comment - [What does AWS Glue do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-aws-glue-do) - 2 comments - [What are the main components of AWS Glue?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-main-components-of-aws-glue) - 2 comments - [What are the features of glue?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-features-of-glue) - 1 comment - [View AWS Glue pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-glue/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+13%3A15%3A21+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e855afc5-e30a-4903-891d-b109eeb36d6b&secure%5Btoken%5D=ab9b3d6cb9ca5c1b1e6feb72279ce4b232168144973e4da250903626c808d0a2&format=llm_user) ## AWS Glue Integrations - 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