AWS Glue 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

AWS Glue

4.1

(10)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About AWS Glue

AWS Glue is an ETL and serverless data integration solution that helps businesses streamline processes related to multi-source data extraction, data enrichment, and data organization in data lakes, warehouses, and databases. It enables team members to utilize DataBrew functionality to automate visual data preparation tasks via the pre-built transformations.

AWS Glue allows employees to visually transform data using a drag-and-drop interface, build ETL pipelines via job scheduling methodology, and transform streaming data. It lets users connect to use the prioritized list of classifiers to connect to data sources and create metadata in the built-in Data Catalog.

AWS Glue comes with an application programming interface (API), which allows businesses to integrate the platform with several third-party solutions. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via FAQs, documentation, and other online resources.

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AWS Glue Pricing and Plans

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AWS Glue Features

Popular features found in ETL
Data Analysis Tools
Data Extraction
Data Quality Control
Integration Management
Job Scheduling
Match & Merge
Metadata Management
Search/Filter
More features of AWS Glue
Activity Dashboard
API
Data Capture and Transfer
Data Connectors
Data Integration
Data Transformation
Data Visualization
ETL
Monitoring

AWS Glue User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.1

Ratings Breakdown

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20%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.9

Value for money

4.1

Customer support

3.8

Functionality

3.9

Haniel L.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2022

Powerful ETL tool in AWS

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

It is an ETL tool in AWS that you can use for moving the data between different databases and services like S3, data archiving, and transformation. It has got an inbuilt spark code editor where you can write your own customized code.

Cons:

It gets complicated very quickly and the whole process of using this tool for complex tasks requires immense effort and time. In terms of pricing, it can get expensive based on the performance you are expecting. Debugging the issues that are related to permissions while using this service is a nightmare and you end up giving full permissions.

Mia G.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2024

Seamless Data Integration Tool

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I appreciate its ability to effortlessly integrate various data sources. I used it to transform and move data from S3 to Redshift without any hassle.

Cons:

The initial setup can be quite complex. It took me a while to configure all the necessary permissions for data integration.

David W.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Powerful, but complex

We ultimately found AWS Glue quite complex to achieve the things we wanted, and ended up switching to a different product.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

AWS Glue offers a lot of functionality and fits in well with other AWS products. In our case, we wanted to migrate data from a bunch of different AWS RDS databases and products to a data warehouse. AWS DMS got us only so far, whereas Glue looked like it would help us take deltas in S3 buckets and merge them together and transform them. So, in that regard, it's great as an all-in-AWS solution that can work with AWS S3, DMS, QuickSight, IAM, etc.

Cons:

It's not easy to set up or debug. In fact, you'll end up scratching your head many times as you try and work out why things aren't working. You need to really look at it hard and implement logging if you're going to work it out. However, frustratingly, only a small amount of its power is available within the GUI. For instance, you can do parquet file formats in the GUI and need to use JSON or the CLI.

Reasons for choosing AWS Glue

We didn't; we ended up going with Hevo.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2023

The Complete ETL Service

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

A good thing about it is that you don't have to worry about managing the servers, scaling or anything related to the infrastructure.

Cons:

The good thing can sometimes be bad too, AWS Glue provides pre-built templates, there are limits to the customization that can be done.

Verified

Reviewer

Telecommunications

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed February 2023

Execute python code more efficiently using Glue !

The entire ETL jobs written in python are currently scheduled in Glue with the s3 trigger attached , I should say it works so seamlessly !

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The AWS glue give you the power to integrate/migrate any data sources and build the semantic layer for reporting and other data analytical purposes . The crawler of Glue works brilliantly well to scan the source files to perform initial validations to move the data across the next stage .

Cons:

The scheduler of the glue could have been better , Since its currently misses out in lot of features . Even the job dependencies cannot be set at present .

Angel C.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Organizacion e integraciónes de calidad

Yo y mi organización llevamos algunos años utilizando este software para el análisis, integración y limpieza de datos de nuestra empresa y puedo decir de primera mano que es perfecta y permite ahorrar meses de trabajo y resultados increíbles.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Este software sin duda es mas potente en cuanto análisis, integración de datos y limpieza, permitiendo ahorrar mucho tiempo y observar las tareas perfectamente dando lugar a resultados fantásticos para mi trabajo.

Cons:

No tiene nada negativo, todos los aspectos del software son imprescindibles y beneficiosos.

Zie Mamadou C.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used weekly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed October 2023

AWS Glue un ETL Amazone

Complexité d'utilisation

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

AWS Glue est un ETL(Extract, Transform, Load), gérer par amazone qui est un connecteur de plusieurs source de données

Cons:

Dépendances à Amazone, coût de déploiement élevé

Parth P.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2021

ETL Application :AWS Glue

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

AWS glue is a wonderful ETL apparatus by AWS. It is a server less and end client don't have to deal with any infrastructure simply foster the pipeline utilizing paste studio or custom python prearrange and execute it exceptionally quick simple to learn and easy to execute .

Cons:

If the at first beginning up an ideal opportunity for cluster turn up could be diminished it would be an extraordinary help to deal with.

Anis B.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

10000+ employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2023

Easy integration for batch processed data

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Since AWS Glue comes easily integrable with other AWS Tools, it's easy to set up and looks like a clear choice when dealing with consumption of large amount of data. Also, monitoring and dashboards are easy to maintain for AWS Glue.

Cons:

Rates of data consumption for AWS Glue cannot be easily managed, which leads to data loss and corruption. Also, it can only process data in batches but not real time data.

Laura R.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Not my favorite ETL tool, but it's great for small jobs

It's a decent ETL tool for the price. It can handle basic transformations and it's easy to use. Anyone with a desire to learn it could do so easily.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's very easy to use. It seems like it's meant for first time ETL engineers. There is enough documentation to learn it on your own, and the costs isn't so bad.

Cons:

It's too simplistic. It doesn't handle complex transformations very well.

Reasons for choosing AWS Glue

We were already hosting our data in AWS, so it seemed like a good idea to let AWS glue handle some data wrangling.

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