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AWS Glue

Composite Score

8.7 /10

CX Score

9.1 /10

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What is AWS Glue?

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes data preparation simpler, faster, and cheaper. You can discover and connect to over 70 diverse data sources, manage your data in a centralized data catalog, and visually create, run, and monitor ETL pipelines to load data into your data lakes. AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics.

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Awards & Recognition

AWS Glue won the following awards in the Data Integration category

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2026 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2026

0 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2026

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2025

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2025

1 Top Rated Capabilities

0 Top Rated Features

2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

1 Top Rated Capabilities

0 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2023

AWS Glue Ratings

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88 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+94 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love AWS Glue?

1% Negative

3% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Fair
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable

Feature Ratings

Average 79

Metadata Management

Administrative Features

Batch Integration

Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing

Data Security

Data Virtualization

Multi Channel Support

Synchronization and Replication

API Management and Orchestration

iPaaS

Real Time Integration

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Ease of Data Integration

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

AWS Glue Reviews

Abhishek M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Sep 2024

good ELT service on cloud

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?

integration with aws services

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

glue serverless, option to choose on-demand GPU,

What do you dislike most about this product?

have been getting this error, not enough IP address

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

glue jobs are essentials for your data services

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Caring
Client Friendly Policies

Ryan M. Z.

Role: Industry Specific Role
Industry: Utilities
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2026

Honest feedback

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?

Usability and features help improve the overall experience

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The usability making the features easy to find for coordination and integration

What do you dislike most about this product?

The thing I dislike the most about the product is the price, but I don’t think that’s a fair assessment

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Make sure you have a checklist in place before you use the product and have someone who’s gonna support it for sustainability

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Saves Time

Aayushman S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2026

Efficient Data Workflows Start with AWS Glue

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AWS Glue from other similar products?

AWS Glue is fully serverless which means I don't have to manage any infrastructure, and it scales automatically with your workloads that's save my time. AWS Glue is it's tight intergation with the AWS ecosystem . It's works seamlessly with Amazon S3, Amazon Athena , Amazon Redshirt and other AWS services. That makes building end to end that advantages for me because data pipelines much smoother compared to tools that are more standalone or cloud agnostic .

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

AWS Glue makes buliding and managing data pipelines feel almost effortless that really I appreciate . It's also the automatic data keeps track of tables schemas, and metadata across multiple sources which saves my ton of time and when intergation data from different system that reduce errors.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I honestly say its some of pricing nuances are surprised to me and AWS Glue is incredibly powerful but it feels a bit opaque at times. Sinces it's fully serverless, I don't get direct to the underlying infrastructure which makes troubleshooting performance issue or inderu why a job ran slower than ecpected can be tricky. But it's gives me Brilliant performance which i thankful to AWS Glue.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I recommendation, Start by clearly defining your data pipeline needs and understanding your data sources because Glue is extremely flexible and scalable but that flexibility can be overwhelming of you try to dive in without a plan and I also suggest leveraging Glue's visual ETL tools for smaller workflows while gradually incorporating custom Python or Scala scripts for more complex transformation because that balance helps my teams get value quickly without being bogged down in code from day one. One things my personal experience which I assume that you should keep in mind to pay attention to data cataloging and schema management early.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Trustworthy
Fair

Cons

Less Effective Service

AWS Glue

What is AWS Glue?

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Awards & Recognition

2026 Data Quadrant Champion

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

AWS Glue Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+94 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love AWS Glue?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Metadata Management A metadata layer makes reporting easy and eliminates the need for coding and SQL, allowing users to see and access information in simple business language.

Administrative Features Includes basic aspects of data extraction, transformation, and loading. Administrative console and process viewing, interruption, restart, cancel, and rollback.

Batch Integration Includes ability to schedule integration processes to run on a periodic basis to control the movement of data from a source to target.

Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing Includes data cleansing, reconciliation, and profiling across multiple sources in batch mode.

Data Security Includes ability to hide sensitive data by masking with special characters or anonymous information.

Data Virtualization Includes ability to create views joining disparate data sources without the need for persistence.

Multi Channel Support The ability to support and connect with channels including Cloud Services, Big Data Platforms, web, mobile, social, IoT, wearables, etc.

Synchronization and Replication Includes the ability to accurately catch, reflect, and correct changes in data across multiple data stores.

API Management and Orchestration Includes publishing, promoting and overseeing APIs and Orchestration Services.

iPaaS Includes iPaaS (Cloud hosting) features and other advanced integration capabilities

Real Time Integration Able to integrate data in near-real time and handle movement of data from a source to target. Monitoring for changes in a data source in a non-invasive manner.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

AWS Glue Reviews

Abhishek M.

good ELT service on cloud

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ryan M. Z.

Honest feedback

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Aayushman S.

Efficient Data Workflows Start with AWS Glue

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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Feature Ratings

Metadata Management

Administrative Features

Batch Integration

Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing

Data Security

Data Virtualization

Multi Channel Support

Synchronization and Replication

API Management and Orchestration

iPaaS

Real Time Integration

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Data Integration

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization