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As of March 2025, the mindshare of AWS Glue in the Cloud Data Integration category stands at 21.4%, down from 21.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
Insurance Company
6%
Retailer
4%
Healthcare Company
4%
Educational Organization
3%
University
3%
Energy/Utilities Company
3%
Real Estate/Law Firm
3%
Media Company
3%
Non Profit
2%
Comms Service Provider
2%
Construction Company
2%
Transportation Company
2%
Hospitality Company
2%
Outsourcing Company
2%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Performing Arts
1%
Wholesaler/Distributor
1%
Consumer Goods Company
1%
Engineering Company
1%

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Principal Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of AWS Glue
Jan 5, 2025
Product version discussed: 5.0
The solution improves ETL performance but faces challenges with version upgrades

Pros

"For ETL, I feel the performance is excellent."

Cons

"Improvements in the UI are needed, as it is challenging to understand some functionalities."
PeerSpot user
Data Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of AWS Glue
Jan 26, 2025
Challenges with interface ease highlight benefits for data curation and transformation

Pros

"If I'm working with big data, common languages like Python work quite nicely, which is advantageous."

Cons

"It is quite clunky and code-heavy, which is my biggest problem. "
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Muthuvel Sivaraman - PeerSpot user
AVP at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of AWS Glue
Jun 26, 2024
Handles a huge volume of data and is serverless, but it can be considered costly by some users

Pros

"It is a very scalable solution."

Cons

"The drawbacks associated with the product stem from the fact that, based on the data volume, it can become very costly."
Ajaykumar Myana - PeerSpot user
Senior Software Developer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of AWS Glue
Aug 4, 2023
Provides serverless mechanism, easy data transformation and automated infrastructure management

Pros

"We no longer had to worry much about infrastructure management because AWS Glue is serverless, and Amazon takes care of the underlying infrastructure. "

Cons

"In terms of performance, if they can further optimize the execution time for serverless jobs, it would be a welcome improvement. "
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Offshore Delivery | AWS architect | Manager - Projects at Cognizant
Verified user of AWS Glue
Nov 11, 2024
Swift data transformations with effortless orchestration and a straightforward setup

Pros

"AWS Glue is very quick to start without cold starts, unlike AWS Lambda."

Cons

"The process of entering environment variables in AWS Glue requires navigating to a different page, which could be streamlined."
ParamShah - PeerSpot user
Engineering Manager at Milestone Technologies
Verified user of AWS Glue
Mar 6, 2024
A cloud solution with easy configuration with output limitation

Pros

"Our entire use case was very easily handled or solved using this solution."

Cons

"It is not clear how the partition discovery would have been affected by more data coming in."
AmitMataghare - PeerSpot user
Associate Director at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of AWS Glue
Aug 9, 2023
A scalable tool to build data engineering pipelines

Pros

"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."

Cons

"Only people who can code, either in Java or Python, can use the product freely. Those who don't know Java or Python might find using AWS Glue difficult."
Rajesh Ramadoss - PeerSpot user
Technology Specialist at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of AWS Glue
Aug 8, 2024
An interpreted language that does not need compilation, but it is very difficult to learn

Pros

"You do not need many frameworks to run Glue."

Cons

"It is very difficult to learn the tool and remember the syntaxes comparatively."