We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and Zapier based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like its integration and ability to handle all data-related tasks."
"The solution's technical support is good. Whenever we raise a use case where we face an issue in our company, we get a response from the solution's technical team."
"I like the fact that AWS Glue works with Python scripts."
"What I like best about AWS Glue is its real-time data backup feature. Last week, there was a production push, and what used to take almost ten days to send out around fifty-six thousand emails now takes only two hours."
"AWS Glue is fast and managed by AWS. Hence, you don't have to worry about capacity and the performance of Glue jobs. It has integrations with other data stores of AWS. The product offers metadata management, logging, and ETL processing capabilities. It comes with a powerful feature, Glue Studio, which helps to do queries interactively within the community. It is a managed service and very secure. Another popular and mature service is S3."
"The product has a valuable feature for data catalog."
"We no longer had to worry much about infrastructure management because AWS Glue is serverless, and Amazon takes care of the underlying infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is that it provides a GUI format with a drag-and-drop feature."
"The initial setup is pretty easy to do."
"Webhooks are the most valuable feature of Zapier."
"With the previous CRM we were using – the Google Ads landing pages we had – we were collecting leads manually. That process was not efficient and took a sales team a lot of time to insert these leads manually. Currently, the process is smooth and we use Zapier to collect the leads for us."
"The ability to connect web applications to trigger actions in another app after having enriched, formatted, delayed, grouped, and filtered is really valuable for many businesses."
"The product's most valuable feature is automation."
"The connection between Facebook lead forms and MailChimp integrations is the most valuable feature."
"Zapier's interface, for me, is the solution's greatest value proposition. It is designed and developed for people who don't have a clue about what they're trying to do. It has a very user-friendly interface."
"The most valuable feature of Zapier is it saves me time doing repetitive tasks."
"In terms of improvement, the performance of AWS Glue could be faster."
"The monitoring is not that good."
"It is not clear how the partition discovery would have been affected by more data coming in."
"I haven't looked into Glue in terms of seeking out flaws. I've not come across missing features."
"AWS Glue is more costly compared to other tools like Airflow."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The interface for AWS Glue could improve, they do not put a lot of details. You can write the code, in PySpark or in Scala, which is a big advantage, it is only easy to use for a developer. It will be difficult for new users to enter the cloud environment."
"I would like to see a more robust interface on the no-code side. This would be nice to be able to split cells."
"Being able to share Zaps and organize them with teammates would allow sharing and refining scenarios and even combining steps that require different people's credentials."
"Some apps are not available yet. For instance, a connection with Joomla! would be great. In general, all the most-used apps are available, but I bumped into Joomla! with a client."
"Zapier needs more YouTube or video tutorials or more training for people. That would help a lot. In particular, Zapier should have documentation for every connector. Its documentation needs to be more detailed and visual."
"I would like to see them improve the Quickbase integration. Currently, it only allows triggering actions when records are added, but it would be more useful if we could also trigger actions when records are modified or deleted."
"I think that this solution should have more apps connected to it."
"My biggest concern with Zapier would be their pricing strategy."
"Some recent changes to the solution have made it bulky and not as intuitive to use as it previously was."
"There is room for improvement in the support. They are not responsive, and they don't take much time to get resolved."
AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Zapier is ranked 10th in Cloud Data Integration with 41 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Zapier is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Glue writes "Provides serverless mechanism, easy data transformation and automated infrastructure management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zapier writes "A tool for automation purposes requiring an easy initial setup while offering a very helpful technical support team ". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio, whereas Zapier is most compared with Alteryx Designer, Coefficient, Tray.io, MuleSoft Composer and Coupler.io. See our AWS Glue vs. Zapier report.
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