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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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Showing 131-140 out of 183

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Danny S

08/31/20

5 out of 5

"AWS Glue is what Keeps Us Together"

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 ...

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Anonymous User

07/28/20

4 out of 5

"Best for quick deployment of ETL jobs"

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 ...

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Anonymous User

07/28/20

4 out of 5

"Best for quick deployment of ETL jobs"

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 ...

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Anonymous User

12/04/19

2.5 out of 5

"Glue"

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

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Anonymous User

12/04/19

2 out of 5

"Glue review"

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

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Anonymous User

12/04/19

1.5 out of 5

"Glue Data Catalog"

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

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Anonymous User

11/01/19

4.5 out of 5

"AWS Glue is powerful serverless ETL tool."

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 ...

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Yuriy P

11/01/19

3.5 out of 5

"ETL service not for all use cases"

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 ...

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Anonymous User

10/31/19

4.5 out of 5

"A powerful server less ETL tool"

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 ...

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Anudeep M

08/28/19

4 out of 5

"AWS glue for ETL"

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 ...

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