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AWS Glue Reviews in June 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons
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AWS Glue Reviews & Ratings
Spotsaas Editor’s POV
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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Ajinkya B
11/27/18
"Better alternative for hive metastore"
What do you like best about AWS Glue? Seems to be great option if you wwant to test out another metastore instead of the default one which comes with hive What do you dislike about AWS Glue? Its too new and not many tutorials or use cases are mentioned on the web so it will take some time to use this in prod. right now we are still doing poc on it What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you? we can reduce pressure on hive metastore. sometimes the data can be too much ...
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Jaaromy Z
11/27/18
"Easy Schema Creation for Athena"
What do you like best about AWS Glue? Glue Crawlers allow me to easily modify and create Athena tables based on ever changing JSON objects. What do you dislike about AWS Glue? Lack of adequate documentation, (ESPECIALLY examples!) of Glue Crawler Classifiers. What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you? Simplified deployment and maintainance of Athena tables with Glue Crawlers. Removed need to schedule a dedicated Lambda cron job to create partitions.
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Anonymous User
11/26/18
"It is coming along"
What do you like best about AWS Glue? We began implementing in Jan 18 for etl. It filled our need, but was hard to manage. It management has since improved greatly, and we have several pipelines (with step functions) in production. We continue to evolve our patterns, and glue continues to be a key service within those patterns. What do you dislike about AWS Glue? It continues to be difficult to understand processing states. It was difficult to orchestrate (we tried triggers, but those ...
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Anonymous User
11/26/18
"analytics on GLue"
What do you like best about AWS Glue? its easy to use, scalable, integrates well with cloudwatch, sns, etc crawler helps with schema identification and user access through athena What do you dislike about AWS Glue? limit on concurrency, no tagging on glue resources What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you? run analytics on data lake
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Anonymous User
11/26/18
"Good"
What do you like best about AWS Glue? I hope there are more statistics from the console like job management What do you dislike about AWS Glue? I’d like more meaningful job console to track status What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you? Piping data into data store
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Li G
11/26/18
"Good but not enough integration with open source data processing tools"
What do you like best about AWS Glue? Wide selection of built-in process to ETL and schema extraction. integration with EMR, Athena, What do you dislike about AWS Glue? Harder to integrate with non-EMR based big data tools, such as spark streaming, Flink, etc. What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you? Data catalog of various data sources and sinks
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Anonymous User
11/26/18
"Glue is Awesome!"
What do you like best about AWS Glue? Ability to transform foundational company data. What do you dislike about AWS Glue? Challenges with Optimization of derived entities and views created as part of data transformation. What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you? Transforming Company Data
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Li G
11/26/18
"Good but not enough integration with open source data processing tools"
What do you like best about AWS Glue? Wide selection of built-in process to ETL and schema extraction. integration with EMR, Athena, What do you dislike about AWS Glue? Harder to integrate with non-EMR based big data tools, such as spark streaming, Flink, etc. What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you? Data catalog of various data sources and sinks
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Gnana Salai D
11/26/18
"Next Gen ETL "
What do you like best about AWS Glue? Crawler & how you can integrate with other AWS services What do you dislike about AWS Glue? It is still evolving; performance can still be improved What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you? We built the Sales Analytics domain using Glue
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Anonymous User
11/26/18
"Good"
What do you like best about AWS Glue? I hope there are more statistics from the console like job management What do you dislike about AWS Glue? I’d like more meaningful job console to track status What problems is AWS Glue solving and how is that benefiting you? Piping data into data store
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