--- 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: '2026-08-04' 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. I have used glue while working on project required to perform ETL on data. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajesh Y. | Data Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** User Interface and graphical display of process. (DAG) **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Nothing, found it helpful and time-saving. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** Nice tool. Please try it once!!! **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Was required to perform transformations on the data like renaming the column names, drooping columns and analyzing the data using SPARK SQL. ### 2. Good ETL Tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** We can use this for organize and formate data for storage. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** We need speed process and limitations of real- time data. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can use it for microsoft SQL server and for amazon S3 ### 3. Supercharge your ETL **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** I like that Glue lets me create jobs or use the Catalog with my existing Spark ETL jobs. Glue is serverless, so I don't have to worry about any of the standard cons that come with hosting my own. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Glue doesn't provide a lot of integrations with other ETL platforms if one wants to mix and match services between multiple providers. Glue also only supports a handful of SQL database sources and S3. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Glue Catalog to create schemas for my Spark Streaming job on EMR and my Kinesis Firehose application. It helped reduce any false documents from entering the Lake. I used Glue jobs to do one-time migration from MongoDB to S3. ### 4. Glue is a great tool if we want to run a catalogue on top of the tap. It gels perfectly with Athena. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Cataloguing by Glue is a great tool which help to implement a Lakehouse for any data intensive application **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** It should provide more transformation as we have in other ETL/ELT tools **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are building a metadata-driven Lakehouse by using cataloguing provided by Glue ### 5. AWS glue **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Best platform for big data processing and fastest interface using pyspark **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** UI is bit complicated and keeps on changing **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Writing bigger codes and jobs for ETL and data analysis ### 6. Serverless ETL by AWS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** AWS glue is an awesome etl tool by AWS. It is a server less and end user do not need to manage any infra .. just develop the pipeline using glue studio or custom python script and execute it .. very fast easy to learn and simple to execute . **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** A bit of improvement require in glue studio **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ingest the data so quickly and no manage in the infrastructure ### 7. Excellent data integration tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishnu V. | Staff Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Without code, you can integrate, extract data from different sources. We did a POC in a couple of days **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Visualization can be even rich and user friendly **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time for integration, extraction of data sources is reduced from months to hours ### 8. Great service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** To be able to run jobs using Spark clusters **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** The API does not contain all functionalities as the UI console **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** To run processing jobs as part of the pipeline ### 9. AWS Glue is what Keeps Us Together **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danny S. | Director of Planning, Engineering, and Innovation @ USSOCOM, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2020 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** The ease and functionality of the solution **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Can be expensive depending on the amount of usage and what you plan on doing with it. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** Make sure you use a calculator and have some metrics to determine just how expensive your total cost of ownership will be. You get freebies up front but that doesn't mean it's cheap. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS Glue helped us understand what data we have, why we had it, how to analyze it, and then move it between our services. ### 10. Best for quick deployment of ETL jobs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2020 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Easy to integrate with majority of aws services although majority of our work Load come from s3. No overhead for provisioning of etl jobs **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** If the initially start up time for cluster spin up could be reduced it would be a great service to work on **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** We mostly work with the end to end data lake setup on aws where aws glue is majorly used for the data transformation. Major benefit is that it is serverless and saves a lot of time on defining your schemas ### 11. AWS glue for ETL **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anudeep M. | SAP BODS S/4 Hana MDG solutions migration developer, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** The most useful thing about AWS glue is to convert the data into parquet format from the raw data format, which is not present with other ETL tools . It can convert a very large amount of data into parquet format and retrieve it as required. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Its not user friendly with Graphical user interface like other ETL tools and expects developers to work on coding and debugging is tough. AWS glue source to target mapping schema creation is also not user friendly. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** AWS integration with other applications for fetching data has limitation. Hand shake with whitelisting of AWS ports and servers and packet size for sending data and hopping between points to move the data needs to be considered while sending data into its raw bucket. It works fine as along as data is available in raw buckets. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to migrate the energy audit data into AWS using AWS glue for billions of records. Data types were limited. ### 12. ETL service not for all use cases **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yuriy P. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Purely serverless. Great dashboard. Has many features. Crawler that discovers data schema in S3, Ability to run spark like scripts for data processing. Meta store for pseudo tables from s3 **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Spark like scripts are using AWS code wrappers over spark code. Requires to learn the Api. In order to debug need to perform a lot of movements. As for to one sevice, to many things dropped in one place. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** No other option for spectrum for example, but to use it **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** S3 data schema discovery. ETL for data in S3 using fully managed EMR like cluster. S3 data pseudo tables manipulation. ### 13. AWS Glue is powerful serverless ETL tool. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** The best thing in glue is you no need to worry about infrastructure ,and it is build on spark frame work , sk it is faster and do inmemory computaction. Most of the cases gor 1 to 1 transformations aws glue automatically generates pyspark code.best part is ML LIB **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Still it has to improve towards ETL transformations.and when we run job for firsttime it takes lot time to actual start **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** For data processing on aws cloud you we must explore aws glue etl tool **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most of our data cleansing taks done by glue ### 14. This aws glie is really cost effective and sustain with tough challenges to existing lagecy ETL tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** - Uses spark and big data frame internally fwhich is really awesome to implement glue job for huge density of data. - aws glue run in the vpc which is more secure in data prospective. - serverless architecture which give benefit to reduce the Maintainablity cost , auto scale and lot. - if you know the behaviour of you data than can optimise the glue job to run very effectively. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** - glue uses spark framwork in backend system. So to play will aws glue you must know spark and big data concept to build your glue jobs. - glue runs in vpc so it is hard to get the dependecy lib to run job like in python. - not developer friendly like other etl tool have like streamsets - because internally uses hadoop system take more time to run job. Which is very hard for the development in aws glue console - no concept to stream the data, only dump load can be done wth crown tab Or trigger glue job. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** Can use it is really awesome aws components in etl prospective **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** - multiple parameter pass before glue start run like memory usage, spark configuration etc. ### 15. A powerful server less ETL tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** The best part in glue is serverless and we can connect to different data sources easily like oracle, redshift, sqlserver , s3 .. etc. I like crawler very much it understands different format text files and builds schema in athena.machine learning is another asset for glue **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** When we start a job for first time it takes lot of time to actual start. I can understand here glue trys to build spark cluster and prepares environment for running glue code. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** All of our data cleansing is done by glue. We havd almost morethan 4 TB data. Glue works well with it. ### 16. Serverless Computing made easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** It's the best ETL tool I have come across. Has all the functionalities required for successfull ETL. Since it's completely serverless and can be scaled for up to petabytes of data,I think it's the most disruptive technology by Amazon. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** There is not a single thing that I dislike about this product. There is always a scope for development but with this tools amazing suite of features,I am clueless as what next can be offered in an ETL tool. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** You can go ahead with this tool without giving a single thought and later you will thank me for the advise. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Aws glue on a daily basis for performing analytics ,ETL on huge datesets. I think it's feature of auto scaling,serverl as computing ,pay as you go service model are quite impressive. ### 17. Glue review **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Crawlers are the best as they go thru different data sources **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** No UI and it makes it hard for non-developers **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** ETL ### 18. Glue Data Catalog **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Ability to access schemas from one location **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** clunky to get it to work correctly. Problems integrating with ETL pipelines **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data Catalog ### 19. Point and click ETL service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan R. | Software Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** AWS manages the minutia for you, so you can focus on the analytics. It also imports your data within AWS and categorizes it. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** I wish there was more cross correlation between meta-data. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** If you want to get the most out of your data and dial in on commonalities, I recommend this service. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organizing customer data while also insuring it is protected in transit. ### 20. 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 ### 21. Good Tool to Index S3 and Athena **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Extremely easy to create and keep updated as new data sources are added to S3. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Limited number of file types are supported. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Indexing our S3 buckets for easy querying the objects stored within our web application ### 22. AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for custom **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Easy to learn with lease knowledge of any complex terms. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Currently started learning and were able to complete my task with least help and research. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly used for Data transformation ### 23. Cloud based ETL service!! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** parth s. | Cloud Architect, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** i have been using it for 1-2 years , the best thing about AWS glue is it's a serverless solution , it works by just pointing AWs glue to all other kinds of ETL jobs and hit run , it basically an service that makes it simple and cost effective to categorize data , clean the data , enrich the data , and it makes the job moving data reliably btwn various data stores very easy and efficient, we can also connect it with oracle database !! **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** it gives very high level of automation and less customization !! **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** Very cost effective and reliable service to clean data, enrich data and to perform all kind of ETL (Extract Transform Load ) operations on the data!! **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use it to perform ETL jobs like preparing data for Machine Learning Model , to do analytics and auditing!! ### 24. Better alternative for hive metastore **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajinkya B. | Member Of Technical Staff (Data Platform), Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Seems to be great option if you wwant to test out another metastore instead of the default one which comes with hive **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Its too new and not many tutorials or use cases are mentioned on the web so it will take some time to use this in prod. right now we are still doing poc on it **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** we can reduce pressure on hive metastore. sometimes the data can be too much and can get spikes in hive metastore so we need something better solution which wont have the same issues we already deal with. glue can be good option here which will solve the problem ### 25. The ETL (Extract Tranform And Load) service for AWS! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** alkesh g. | Cloud Architect, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** i have been working with AWS Glue for 2-3 years , it allows you to locate , move and transform all your data sets across your business , the most interesting thing about AWS Glue is ,it's server less you can run your all ETL jobs by just pointing Glue to them, you don't need to configure , provision or spinup servers , and you don't need to manage their life cycle , it customizes your task by 80-85%!! **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** it's not that easy to learn and implement AWS Glue because it contains concepts like Crawlers , ETL scripts etc. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** one of the reliable and heavily used server less software for performing all kinds of ETL tasks on data sets!! **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** we're using it for 2-3 years for performing all the ETL tasks on our Structured as well as Semi-Structure data sets!! ### 26. Easiest Cloud Platform (according to multiple clients we work with) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Ease, simplicity, intuitive-ness. Hands down the easiest platform to administer, maintain, and scale. This is coming from multiple clients we work with who have swtiched to the product from a variety of competitors. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Price can be an issue for some, depending on the company size and budgetary restrictions. Certainly it's not anything related to simplicity or ease. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** Everything seems to be wonderful in terms of ease of use and simplicity **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a growing company who supports a number of clients, we've found it's easier in terms of the platform vs. the other options out there. Time is a commodity we never get enough of, so to reduce training and administering time is KEY. ### 27. Very specific use cases only **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Schedule ETL operations is very cool, I think it could be a great thing. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** UI needs work. Very slow, HOWEVER, my first experience with this was at re:invent, so resources were probably stretched thin. I did talk to another person in the training with me who said it does tend to be slow, but he just schedules jobs to run over night and it works great for him. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** Try it out with a POC. I've heard from it works very well in production. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm not currently solving a business problem with it. I would like to use it for automated feedback processing. ### 28. AWS Glue review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darun J. | AWS Glue Review, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** It is easy to load and analyze data. Running an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) job is quite easy and intuitive. Once the data is processed by AWS Glue, the data can be queried and extracted using simple SQL like commands. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Integration with other AWS components is not easy even if all the components are in the same environment. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** Best tool for ETL jobs and data analysis **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cleaning up and extracting data from large datasets ### 29. 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. ### 30. AWS Glue is promising but needs improvements **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** 1.Serverless. Fully managed. 2. Easy to write a script. 3. Connects with Relational databases (JDBC) 4. Data crawler and integration with Athena. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** 1. No IDE supported for development. Delay in identifying syntax errors or other tyop errors as we have to wait for servers to start. 2. Current DPU configuration is small. 3. Development end point option is available but no way to pause it. We have to delete it or will be charged as long as it is up. Setting up Dev end point can be painful considering organization's security policies. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** ETL pipeline. ### 31. 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. ### 32. It is coming along **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** We began implementing in Jan 18 for etl. It filled our need, but was hard to manage. It management has since improved greatly, and we have several pipelines (with step functions) in production. We continue to evolve our patterns, and glue continues to be a key service within those patterns. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** It continues to be difficult to understand processing states. It was difficult to orchestrate (we tried triggers, but those worked poorly, hence step functions), **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** ETL - cleansing raw data, transforming per business rules, publishing to S3 buckets. ### 33. Easy Schema Creation for Athena **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jaaromy Z. | Senior Systems Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Glue Crawlers allow me to easily modify and create Athena tables based on ever changing JSON objects. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Lack of adequate documentation, (ESPECIALLY examples!) of Glue Crawler Classifiers. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simplified deployment and maintainance of Athena tables with Glue Crawlers. Removed need to schedule a dedicated Lambda cron job to create partitions. ### 34. Good but not enough integration with open source data processing tools **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Li G. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Wide selection of built-in process to ETL and schema extraction. integration with EMR, Athena, **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Harder to integrate with non-EMR based big data tools, such as spark streaming, Flink, etc. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data catalog of various data sources and sinks ### 35. we are first to go live using Glue **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sameulla a. | Engineering Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** its fast reliable and easy to code.and i would definitely recommend to other customers **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** the DPUs allow and running the same script parallely with diffrent scripts **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** yes, ofcourse **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** building sales Analytics data lake ### 36. Next Gen ETL **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gnana Salai D. | Principal Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Crawler & how you can integrate with other AWS services **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** It is still evolving; performance can still be improved **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** We built the Sales Analytics domain using Glue ### 37. 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 ### 38. Building Data lake made easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kiran K. | Director, Architecture, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Product needs maturity but a good offering **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Release cycles are slow. More functonality on Data cataloging features **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building Data Lake and enhancing data analytics ### 39. Great simple etl tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sid M. | VP Software Dev, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** simplicity of use - ability to build simple transformations quickly **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** network connectivity to on-prem servers was a challenge **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data ingestion ### 40. Nice ELT Tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suneel J. | Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Transformation was easy and data manipulation **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Complex Transformation not possible and unable to make large data processing **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data Ingestion ### 41. AWS Glue makes it easy to ETL between S3 and databases with just a little code **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Feature rich, layers on top of Spark (PySpark), ability to run arbitrary PySpark scripts **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** No GUI for Scala (not a big deal but a noticied absence), slow to spin up clusters, limited number of simultaneous DPUs across an account **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Extract data from SQL databases in RDS and in EC2 into S3 for customer access. ### 42. Glue may be the future **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Glue seems to be able toi replace lots of annoying ETL stuff and give power to developers. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** You still have to edit the code manually when there is something more complex stuff going on with the data. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** ETL stuff can be done by data scientist instead of outsourcing everything to long projects. ### 43. Awesome serverless ETL processing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Available Spark Engine Data crawlers to automatically identify schema structure No need to maintain EMR/Hadoop cluster. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Some support for datatypes missing(Map) Auto scaling is missing. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Glue:** FIle types, compression and data types. Size of data **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Serverless ETL. reduces cost of maintaining infrastructure and operational cost. ### 44. AWS Glue Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Its Serverless and it provides the catalog, orchestration all together apart from the compute **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** It seems to run on very cheap machines at the backend, which does not provide the right performance all the time **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data Ingestion, transformation for the data lake ### 45. analytics on GLue **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** its easy to use, scalable, integrates well with cloudwatch, sns, etc crawler helps with schema identification and user access through athena **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** limit on concurrency, no tagging on glue resources **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** run analytics on data lake ### 46. Glue **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Speed to deliver insigets to the business **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Can improve the crawler capability. Should be able to understand datatypes better **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creation of data lake - processing raw data to compressed columnar format ### 47. Good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** I hope there are more statistics from the console like job management **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** I’d like more meaningful job console to track status **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Piping data into data store ### 48. Glue is Awesome! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Ability to transform foundational company data. **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** Challenges with Optimization of derived entities and views created as part of data transformation. **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Transforming Company Data ### 49. ETL solution and data discovery **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Glue?** Data discovery capability is the best thing I liked about GLue **What do you dislike about AWS Glue?** More complex ETL transformation options will be helpful **What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you?** ETL solution ### 50. 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?page=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-04+08%3A36%3A50+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=5c5118a4-ba46-486e-b080-412fd5027d96&secure%5Btoken%5D=3264dcb2164de2cd31476cf239bef0b9b6fd4234cf8fec1b3cf8f06d016a9bda&format=llm_user) ## AWS Glue Integrations - [Amazon Athena](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-athena/reviews) - [AWS Step Functions](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-step-functions/reviews) - [Databricks](https://www.g2.com/products/databricks/reviews) ## AWS Glue Features **Data Governance** - User Access Management - Dynamic Data Masking - Data Lineage **Data Source Access** - Breadth of Data Sources - Ease of Data Connectivity - API Connectivity **Administration** - Database Management - Access Control - Data Security **Management** - Reporting - Auditing **Management** - Real-Time Analytics - Solution Integration - Infrastructure Compatibility - Monitoring **Agentic AI - AWS Marketplace** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration **Management** - Disaster Recovery - Remote Backup - Storage Formats - Scheduled Backups - On-Demand Restoration **Data Preparation** - Search - Data Quality and Cleansing - Data Transformation - Data Modeling **Data Interaction** - Profiling and Classification - Metadata Management - Data Modeling - Data Joining - Data Blending - Data Quality and Cleansing - Data Sharing - Data Governance **Federation** - Architecture - Provisioning - Orchestration - API / Integrations **Functionality** - Extraction - Transformation - Loading - Automation - Scalability **Solution Provision** - System Failover - Pay by Usage - Service Provision **Reporting** - Activity Monitoring - Documentation - Alerts/Notifications **Collaboration** - Commenting - Profiling and Classification - Business and Data Glossary - Metadata Management **Data Exporting** - Breadth of Integrations - Ease of Integrations - Data Workflows **Transformation** - Data Visualization - Application Performance - Data Modeling **Security** - Data Encryption - Security and Compliance - Deduplication **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Agentic AI - Machine Learning Data Catalog** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Decision Making ## Top AWS Glue Alternatives - [Alteryx](https://www.g2.com/products/alteryx/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (856 reviews) - [Fivetran](https://www.g2.com/products/fivetran/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (805 reviews) - [Hevo Data](https://www.g2.com/products/hevo-data/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (288 reviews)