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AWS Glue vs Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Glue
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (1st)
Informatica Intelligent Clo...
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

AWS Glue and Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. AWS Glue is designed for Cloud Data Integration and holds a mindshare of 21.3%, down 21.7% compared to last year.
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 0.6% mindshare, up 0.4% since last year.
Cloud Data Integration
Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Muthuvel Sivaraman - PeerSpot reviewer
Handles a huge volume of data and is serverless, but it can be considered costly by some users
We use Amazon's services to provide technical support for the product. If you want to have support, Oracle and others offer a single support, and other tools have a direct support window. For Amazon, we need to pay 10 percent of my billing amount for the tool to get support services. Whether to raise a support ticket or not is an issue since ten percent is a huge amount. My company ends up using all the options without help from support. It is very difficult for any common man to understand why there is a need to pay ten percent for support. If I find an issue in the product, and I need to get support from AWS to fix it, then I need to pay ten percent of the tool's bill amount to Amazon. AWS is a very tricky tool because everything is evolving nowadays. AWS engineers are getting hired from other places, and even after that, if I am not getting any technical support, then things will be very nasty. There are some good engineers who help users outside the normal support cycle, but it doesn't meet their needs. I rate the technical support a four out of ten.
Argha Das - PeerSpot reviewer
Good tool, especially if you're using cloud services and an S3 bucket
There's definitely room for improvement in terms of user-friendliness. One example is that you can't search for jobs directly by file name. You can only search by job name. So, if you want to find a job that works with a specific file, you have to go through each job individually to find the right one. So, I'd like to see a faster search, one where I can search directly by file name. Moreover, the support team could improve by adding things like file transfer status updates. Also, if someone modifies a job and then leaves the company, that shouldn't disrupt the job for active users. It would be better if the job continued to run smoothly regardless of who modified it.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"AWS Glue is a good solution for developers, they have the ability to write code in different languages and other software."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"If I'm working with big data, common languages like Python work quite nicely, which is advantageous."
"AWS Glue's most valuable features are the data catalog, including crawlers and tables, and Glue Studio, which means you don't have to use custom code."
"The key role for Glue is that it hosts our metadata before rolling out our actual data. This is the major advantage of using this solution and our clients client have been very satisfied with it."
"One aspect that I would like to highlight is the Glue Crawler, which we utilize when working with large datasets to ensure the schema updates seamlessly without requiring end-team knowledge."
"AWS Glue's best features are scalability and cloud-based features."
"I like that it's flexible, powerful, and allows you to write your own queries and scripts to get the needed transformations."
"The feature I found most valuable in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services is the mapping. You just drag, and it maps the data. Mapping is very easy, and it's no code. When you migrate data or when the data interaction happens at the source and destination, the challenge is that you'll get different formats. The validation has to be done in the middleware, and the transformation should happen. In Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, it's very easy to do data validation and transformation compared to any other tool."
"The data integration and synchronization features in IICS improve the data handling processes."
"Customer service and technical support are excellent."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services for me is the availability of connectors."
"Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services offers a wide variety of services, including Cloud Data Integration, which is akin to a replica of PowerCenter on the cloud. I particularly like the mass ingestion service."
"This solution allows you to easily access and make use of information that you have in your on-premises environment."
"I rate the solution's scalability a ten out of ten."
 

Cons

"On occasion, the solution's dashboard reports that a project failed due to runtime but it actually succeeded."
"In terms of improvement, the performance of AWS Glue could be faster."
"It is quite clunky and code-heavy, which is my biggest problem."
"The drawbacks associated with the product stem from the fact that, based on the data volume, it can become very costly."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"I haven't looked into Glue in terms of seeking out flaws. I've not come across missing features."
"The setup and installation is a bit complex without advanced knowledge or training."
"The product has only a few built-in transformations."
"This service could be more cost-effective."
"There's definitely room for improvement in terms of user-friendliness. One example is that you can't search for jobs directly by file name. You can only search by job name. So, if you want to find a job that works with a specific file, you have to go through each job individually to find the right one. So, I'd like to see a faster search, one where I can search directly by file name."
"The product's pricing is definitely an area where a bit of improvement is needed."
"In terms of data volume processing, Intelligent Cloud Services does not match the efficiency of Power Center."
"The cloud version of Informatica, although easier and more advanced than PowerCenter, still requires a deep dive to fix bugs."
"The tool is quite good overall, but sometimes the number of modules can be overwhelming. If the development interface could be optimized to have fewer modules, it would be greatly beneficial."
"Synchronicity is an area for improvement in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services. For example, when you want real-time or immediate response from the solution when multiple technologies are involved, the integration with Informatica Intelligent Cloud isn't seamless, whether it's the MQ, JMS, or BES service, so the connectivity should be improved a bit. The data governance is good, but what's lacking is a demo. For example, if there's a new feature in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, the documentation for that new feature is limited, so if Informatica could give a more complete documentation and more demos, that would be better for the users. Right now, there isn't any issue with any of the features of the solution. It's the new feature awareness or user training, and improved connectivity that I'd like to see in the next version of Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the product's pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price, and ten is a low price."
"AWS Glue is quite costly, especially for small organizations."
"If you are using the solution for an enterprise business, it will be expensive."
"AWS Glue is a high-priced solution that bills the client $150,000 to $250,000 annually."
"I rate pricing an eight out of ten."
"AWS Glue is a paid service that doesn't come under the free trial of AWS."
"AWS Glue uses a pay-as-you-go approach which is helpful. The price of the overall solution is low and is a great advantage."
"The solution's pricing is based on DPUs so it is a good idea to optimize use or it can get expensive."
"The solution is expensive."
"The pricing model is something that can be improved."
"In terms of the licensing for Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, we had the option of paying based on the number of users and paying based on the volume of data, and we went with the data volume licensing option. Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services isn't as expensive as CIG. The pricing for it is okay, so I'm rating it a four out of five in terms of pricing. We did use the email verification and address validation services which weren't part of the contract, so we had to pay additional fees for those services."
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Answers from the Community

SS
Apr 18, 2022
Apr 18, 2022
They both have many features that you will need. AWS Glue will be easier to maintain and integrate because it is a platform on AWS. Informatica is cloud-agnostic. For a large company, you are better off keeping your options open to move to another cloud.
2 out of 3 answers
AS
Aug 16, 2021
@Sandeep Suram,​ can you please elaborate your use case? What exactly are your requirements?
JB
Aug 16, 2021
They both have many features that you will need.  AWS Glue will be easier to maintain and integrate because it is a platform on AWS. Informatica is cloud-agnostic.  For a large company, you are better off keeping your options open to move to another cloud.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
Educational Organization
63%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Consumer Goods Company
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What are the most common use cases for AWS Glue?
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What do you like most about Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services?
The data integration and synchronization features in IICS improve the data handling processes.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services?
Pricing is a bit high, similar to a premium version or a high-end product, and requires a budget ready to manage it.
What needs improvement with Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services?
The cloud version of Informatica, although easier and more advanced than PowerCenter, still requires a deep dive to fix bugs. It could be improved by making the process as intuitive and easy to fol...
 

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