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AWS Glue - ETL Tools

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 141-150 out of 183

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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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Anonymous User

08/22/19

5 out of 5

"AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for custom"

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

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Anonymous User

08/21/19

4.5 out of 5

"This aws glie is really cost effective and sustain with tough challenges to existing lagecy ETL tool"

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 ...

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Anonymous User

07/31/19

4.5 out of 5

"Serverless Computing made easy"

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 ...

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Dan R

06/12/19

5 out of 5

"Point and click ETL service"

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 ...

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Anonymous User

06/04/19

4 out of 5

"Good Tool to Index S3 and Athena"

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

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Anonymous User

06/04/19

4 out of 5

"Good Tool to Index S3 and Athena"

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

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Anonymous User

11/29/18

4 out of 5

"Glue for spark pipeline"

What do you like best about AWS Glue? Glue automates spark pipeline in serverless manner What do you dislike about AWS Glue? Glue catalog does not support free text search What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you? Data lake

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Anonymous User

11/29/18

4 out of 5

"Glue for spark pipeline"

What do you like best about AWS Glue? Glue automates spark pipeline in serverless manner What do you dislike about AWS Glue? Glue catalog does not support free text search What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you? Data lake

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sameulla a

11/28/18

5 out of 5

"we are first to go live using Glue"

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

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