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AWS Glue

Composite Score

8.6 /10

CX Score

9.1 /10

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What is AWS Glue?

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes data preparation simpler, faster, and cheaper. You can discover and connect to over 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. AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics.

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Awards & Recognition

AWS Glue won the following awards in the Data Integration category

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2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

Latest Award, 2024

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024

1 Top Rated Capabilities

0 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2023

AWS Glue Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

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98 Plan to Renew

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77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+96 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love AWS Glue?

2% Negative

3% Neutral

95% Positive

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Trustworthy
Efficient Service

Feature Ratings

Average 78

Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing

Batch Integration

Metadata Management

Administrative Features

Data Security

Synchronization and Replication

Data Virtualization

Multi Channel Support

Real Time Integration

Exception Handling and Notifications

iPaaS

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

AWS Glue Reviews

Shubham A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Efficient Data Integration and ETL AWS Glue

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?

AWS Glue stands out from other similar products by offering fully managed data integration services

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

my favorite aspect about AWS Glue is its seamless integration with other AWS services and data workflows across the entire AWS ecosystem

What do you dislike most about this product?

i dislike about AWS Glue is the limited customisation options which can be restrictive for users who require highly tailored data integration

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

i recommend this to cloud based company which used AWS cloud and working on data workflows

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Nathalie Z.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Retail
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Excellent Data Integration with the AWS Glue.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?

As a serverless service, AWS Glue requires no deployment or management of servers. This lowers costs and makes it very simple to get started with AWS Glue. As a fully-managed service, AWS Glue eliminates of the responsibility of overseeing the underlying infrastructure. This gives me more time to concentrate on my data while also enhancing security and reliability. It’s simple to use AWS Glue. With just a few clicks of a button, I can also create and execute jobs. The graphical user interface offered by AWS Glue also makes it simple to visualize my data and build ETL pipelines.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

One of the superior services provided by Amazon is AWS Glue, which is excellent at transferring data across various data stores and exchanging data for analysis. For the advantages it offers, such as straightforward scalability for processing large volumes of data and a basic and simple user interface for the client experience, I found AWS Glue to be quite helpful in data integration.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Setting up and utilizing AWS Glue can be challenging, especially for individuals who are not skilled in Spark or Python. Especially for large-scale data processing tasks, AWS Glue can be pricey.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Data integration workflows can be set up and managed rather easily with the help of AWS Glue’s user-friendly interface and selection of tools. The process of developing ETL tasks is made easier by the graphical interface, which enables users to identify data sources, transformations, and targets with minimal or no scripting.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy

Cons

Under Delivered

Srg g.

Role: Industry Specific Role
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Bit costly, lot of integration with other services

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?

Availability in AWS

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

suits my needs decently

What do you dislike most about this product?

Integration with other services for full automation

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Try it first before committing to it fully

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

AWS Glue Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+96 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love AWS Glue?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing Includes data cleansing, reconciliation, and profiling across multiple sources in batch mode.

Batch Integration Includes ability to schedule integration processes to run on a periodic basis to control the movement of data from a source to target.

Metadata Management A metadata layer makes reporting easy and eliminates the need for coding and SQL, allowing users to see and access information in simple business language.

Administrative Features Includes basic aspects of data extraction, transformation, and loading. Administrative console and process viewing, interruption, restart, cancel, and rollback.

Data Security Includes ability to hide sensitive data by masking with special characters or anonymous information.

Synchronization and Replication Includes the ability to accurately catch, reflect, and correct changes in data across multiple data stores.

Data Virtualization Includes ability to create views joining disparate data sources without the need for persistence.

Multi Channel Support The ability to support and connect with channels including Cloud Services, Big Data Platforms, web, mobile, social, IoT, wearables, etc.

Real Time Integration Able to integrate data in near-real time and handle movement of data from a source to target. Monitoring for changes in a data source in a non-invasive manner.

Exception Handling and Notifications Ability to catch, report, and handle exceptions; includes transaction logging and event viewing.

iPaaS Includes iPaaS (Cloud hosting) features and other advanced integration capabilities

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

AWS Glue Reviews

Shubham A.

Efficient Data Integration and ETL AWS Glue

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Nathalie Z.

Excellent Data Integration with the AWS Glue.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Srg g.

Bit costly, lot of integration with other services

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing

Batch Integration

Metadata Management

Administrative Features

Data Security

Synchronization and Replication

Data Virtualization

Multi Channel Support

Real Time Integration

Exception Handling and Notifications

iPaaS

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization