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AWS Glue Reviews in June 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

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AWS Glue Reviews & Ratings

2.9

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Based on 141 ratings & 183 reviews

Rating Distribution

Excellent

(106)

Very Good

(62)

Good

(11)

Poor

(2)

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Expert's Review

AWS Glue stands out as a versatile and powerful ETL tool offered by AWS, providing a comprehensive solution for data integration and transformation tasks. Users praise its ease of use, seamless integration with various AWS services, and the convenience of automated script generation for ETL jobs. With features like Glue Studio and serverless capabilities, AWS ...Read more

AWS Glue pros and cons

  • Versatile and powerful ETL tool for data integration tasks.

  • User-friendly interface, excellent integration with AWS services.

  • Serverless feature with auto-generation of ETL job scripts.

  • Convenient drag-and-drop method for creating ETL jobs.

  • Limited support for programming languages (mainly Python and Scala).

  • Costs can be higher, especially for large datasets.

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Aswini A

02/03/22

4 out of 5

"Aws glue is best tool for ETL under cloud services"

What do you like best about AWS Glue? Aws glue can handle huge datasets and have good performance compare to other cloud services. Aws has good security than other service. Data can be easily access due to high response time. Data handling capacity, Data security, Data mining, Data processing etc What do you dislike about AWS Glue? Sometimes performance will be low. Response time will be less during peak hours and also data IO operation is less compared to others cloud services. Cost of ...

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Pavan D

01/28/22

4.5 out of 5

"BEST ETL tool for the Enterprise applications"

What do you like best about AWS Glue? END to END ETL operations starts from Pulling the data into the cloud, transforming the data, and loading it to the target tables, which helps business to generate BI reports and dashboards. What do you dislike about AWS Glue? Loading time is more. Sometimes cloud response is more diminutive and should be improved. It should provide support for multiple programming languages, which helps numerous language programmers to use it ...

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Dilip Kumar D

01/27/22

4 out of 5

"One of the straightforward and quick cloud-based ETL tools is AWS Glue"

What do you like best about AWS Glue? Very quick for ETL job. UI and Command Interface with very few steps to create and schedule ETL Job. It comes with a scheduler and easy deployment for AWS users. The data catalog keeps the reference of the data in a well-structured format. What do you dislike about AWS Glue? Sample Code is fundamental and not available in most of the scenarios. Some aspects of AWS Glue are not very friendly to non-technical beginners. For instance, since all the tasks ...

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Chetan M

12/28/21

4.5 out of 5

"Great ETL Tool"

What do you like best about AWS Glue? I like the automation configuration with Glue. It's easy to work with, simple, and straightforward. Also, debugging for the error is more user-friendly. What do you dislike about AWS Glue? AWS Glue needs some programming background to work with. Documentation can be made more user friendly, also more user education materials for customized scenarios could be helpful What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you? AWS Glue is used for ...

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José L

12/14/21

5 out of 5

"Combine data stores"

What do you like best about AWS Glue? The integration capability that allows between AWS s3 and Redhisft, usually you pull data from the data lake, transform it, and load it into the DW, but with glue, you can just do a SQL query from one data store to another, optimizing performance and saving you coding time in moving data What do you dislike about AWS Glue? Glue accomplishes its purpose as expected so as long as you don't user it for more than it is designed there is not much to dislike, ...

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Anonymous User

12/07/21

4.5 out of 5

"Supercharge your ETL"

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 ...

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Anonymous User

11/25/21

4.5 out of 5

"Serverless ETL by AWS"

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

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Anonymous User

09/29/21

4 out of 5

"Great service"

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

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Anonymous User

09/29/21

4 out of 5

"Great service"

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

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Vishnu V

08/02/21

5 out of 5

"Excellent data integration tool"

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

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