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AWS Glue

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in
4.4
Market Presence: Data Integration Tools, Integration Platform as a Service

Overview

Product Information on AWS Glue

Updated 13th October 2025

What is AWS Glue?

AWS Glue is a cloud-based software designed for data integration and ETL (extract, transform, load) tasks. It enables users to prepare and load data for analytics by providing automated data discovery, schema inference, and job scheduling capabilities. The software supports integration with data stored in various sources, including relational databases, data lakes, and data warehouses. AWS Glue aids in cataloging metadata, transforming raw data, and orchestrating workflows through serverless execution, helping organizations streamline and automate the movement and transformation of large datasets for analytics and reporting.

AWS Glue Pricing

AWS Glue software pricing model is based on a pay-as-you-go structure where charges are incurred for use of data processing units per minute, as well as for data catalog storage and requests. There are no upfront commitments, and users are billed monthly according to usage levels across various Glue features including ETL jobs, crawlers, and data catalog operations.

Overall experience with AWS Glue

Data Analyst
3B - 10B USD, Finance (non-banking)
FAVORABLE

“Efficient large-scale data processing, but mastering optimization is challenging”

4.0
May 30, 2026
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Director of IT Services
<50M USD, Construction
CRITICAL

“Integrating serverless data into AWS facilitates synergies but requires extra resources”

3.0
Apr 22, 2026
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Updated 23rd December 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://aws.amazon.com

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AWS Glue Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(586 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
45%
4 Star
44%
3 Star
10%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • Data Analyst
    1B-10B USD
    Finance (non-banking)
    Review Source

    Efficient large-scale data processing, but mastering optimization is challenging

    4.0
    May 30, 2026
    Overall. My experience with AWS Glue has been very positive. It is a feature-rich, serverless data integration platform that simplifies building and managing ETL pipelines at scale. The platform is particularly strong in metadata management, data transformation and seamless integration with AWS native services. AWS Glue stands out due to its wide range of connectors, automated schema delivery, and flexible transformation capabilities using spark. While it requires some expertise to fully leverage advanced features like optimization and data modelling, it provides a comprehensive and scalable solution for modern data engineering use cases.
  • Data Analyst
    1B-10B USD
    Finance (non-banking)
    Review Source

    Efficient large-scale data processing, but mastering optimization is challenging

    4.0
    May 30, 2026
    Overall. My experience with AWS Glue has been very positive. It is a feature-rich, serverless data integration platform that simplifies building and managing ETL pipelines at scale. The platform is particularly strong in metadata management, data transformation and seamless integration with AWS native services. AWS Glue stands out due to its wide range of connectors, automated schema delivery, and flexible transformation capabilities using spark. While it requires some expertise to fully leverage advanced features like optimization and data modelling, it provides a comprehensive and scalable solution for modern data engineering use cases.
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User Sentiment About AWS Glue
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Deciding Factors: AWS Glue Vs. Market Average
Performance of AWS Glue Across Market Features

AWS Glue Likes & Dislikes

Like

1) There is a wide range of data connectors. AWS Glue supports native connectors for AWS services like S3, Redshift, RDS, DynamoDB, and Aurora along with JDBC connectors for external databases and SaaS integrations. This makes it easy to integrate data across hybrid and multi-source environments. 2) The Glue data catalog feature is great as it acts as a centralized metadata repository, enabling schema versioning, table definitions, and integration with services like Athena and Redshift spectrum which is crucial for data governance and discoverability. 3) Glue also has automated crawlers which detect schemas, classify data and update metadata tables which reduces manual effort in onboarding and maintaining datasets 4) Glue Handles large scale aggregation workloads efficiently using distributed processing. It supports grouping by operations, window functions and partition-based aggregation which makes it useful for analytics pipelines.

Like

1) There is a wide range of data connectors. AWS Glue supports native connectors for AWS services like S3, Redshift, RDS, DynamoDB, and Aurora along with JDBC connectors for external databases and SaaS integrations. This makes it easy to integrate data across hybrid and multi-source environments. 2) The Glue data catalog feature is great as it acts as a centralized metadata repository, enabling schema versioning, table definitions, and integration with services like Athena and Redshift spectrum which is crucial for data governance and discoverability. 3) Glue also has automated crawlers which detect schemas, classify data and update metadata tables which reduces manual effort in onboarding and maintaining datasets 4) Glue Handles large scale aggregation workloads efficiently using distributed processing. It supports grouping by operations, window functions and partition-based aggregation which makes it useful for analytics pipelines.

Like

1) There is a wide range of data connectors. AWS Glue supports native connectors for AWS services like S3, Redshift, RDS, DynamoDB, and Aurora along with JDBC connectors for external databases and SaaS integrations. This makes it easy to integrate data across hybrid and multi-source environments. 2) The Glue data catalog feature is great as it acts as a centralized metadata repository, enabling schema versioning, table definitions, and integration with services like Athena and Redshift spectrum which is crucial for data governance and discoverability. 3) Glue also has automated crawlers which detect schemas, classify data and update metadata tables which reduces manual effort in onboarding and maintaining datasets 4) Glue Handles large scale aggregation workloads efficiently using distributed processing. It supports grouping by operations, window functions and partition-based aggregation which makes it useful for analytics pipelines.

Dislike

Getting it up and running is difficult and complex, and you have to allocate more resources than you initially planned. It's completely dependent on AWS since it's part of their ecosystem. Furthermore, complex data analysis or debugging doesn't provide much information, or at least not enough to be agile; you need time to understand how it works and apply your own criteria.

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Dislike

Getting it up and running is difficult and complex, and you have to allocate more resources than you initially planned. It's completely dependent on AWS since it's part of their ecosystem. Furthermore, complex data analysis or debugging doesn't provide much information, or at least not enough to be agile; you need time to understand how it works and apply your own criteria.

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Dislike

Getting it up and running is difficult and complex, and you have to allocate more resources than you initially planned. It's completely dependent on AWS since it's part of their ecosystem. Furthermore, complex data analysis or debugging doesn't provide much information, or at least not enough to be agile; you need time to understand how it works and apply your own criteria.

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