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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

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Excellent

(106)

Very Good

(62)

Good

(11)

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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 151-160 out of 183

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Anonymous User

11/28/18

5 out of 5

"AWS Glue makes it easy to ETL between S3 and databases with just a little code"

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.

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Anonymous User

11/28/18

5 out of 5

"Easiest Cloud Platform (according to multiple clients we work with)"

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 ...

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Sid M

11/28/18

4.5 out of 5

"Great simple etl tool"

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

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Anonymous User

11/28/18

4.5 out of 5

"ETL solution and data discovery "

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

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Anonymous User

11/28/18

4 out of 5

"Glue may be the future"

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.

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Anonymous User

11/28/18

4 out of 5

"Glue"

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

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Anonymous User

11/28/18

4 out of 5

"Glue"

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

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Anonymous User

11/28/18

4 out of 5

"Glue may be the future"

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.

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Anonymous User

11/28/18

3.5 out of 5

"AWS Glue is promising but needs improvements"

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 ...

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Anonymous User

11/28/18

3 out of 5

"Would love to use when it is hardened"

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

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