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AWS Glue vs Matillion Data Productivity Cloud comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 31, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.9
AWS Glue is cost-effective and efficient for managing limited pipelines, offering good ROI despite setup costs.
Sentiment score
7.3
Matillion Data Productivity Cloud users experience quick ROI, 15%-20% cost reduction, transparent billing, and efficient cloud-based operations across sectors.
I advocate using Glue in such cases.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
AWS Glue support is helpful and responsive, but response times vary; community resources are useful and premium support can be costly.
Sentiment score
7.5
Matillion Data Productivity Cloud offers responsive support, quick resolutions, knowledgeable staff, and proactive communication, with room for speed improvement.
AWS's documentation is reliable, and careful reference often resolves missed upgrade details.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
AWS Glue offers scalable, serverless data handling with high user ratings, excelling in cloud integration but needing improvements.
Sentiment score
7.7
Matillion's seamless cloud integration enhances scalability, though heavy Python use may pose challenges, with recent updates improving efficiency.
It is beneficial to upgrade jobs, and we conduct extensive testing in development before migrating to production.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
AWS Glue is stable and integrates well, though some users seek improvements in performance with heavy workloads and specific features.
Sentiment score
7.8
Matillion Data Productivity Cloud is highly stable, rated nine out of ten, with responsive support and reliable performance.
 

Room For Improvement

AWS Glue faces criticism for slow startup, limited language support, high cost, and complex interface, needing improved documentation and features.
Matillion Data Productivity Cloud requires updates for API, integrations, UI, performance, scalability, efficiency, and comprehensive documentation enhancements.
Migrating jobs from version 3.0 to 4.0 can present compatibility issues.
With AWS, I gather data from multiple sources, clean it up, normalize it, de-duplicate it, and make it presentable.
 

Setup Cost

AWS Glue pricing is flexible but can be costly, especially for enterprises, due to DPU usage and additional support costs.
Matillion Data Productivity Cloud offers flexible, competitive pricing suitable for various team sizes, with cost-effective options for extensive use.
Costing depends on resource usage, and cost optimization may involve redesigning jobs for flexibility.
AWS charges based on runtime, which can be quite pricey.
 

Valuable Features

AWS Glue offers seamless integration, scalability, cost-effectiveness, and efficient ETL with features like data catalog, triggers, and Glue Studio.
Matillion Data Productivity Cloud streamlines ETL with intuitive interface, diverse data integration, and automation, enhancing efficiency and agility.
For ETL, I feel the performance is excellent. If I create jobs in a standard way, the performance is great, and maintenance is also seamless.
I think if I'm working with big data, common languages like Python work quite nicely, which is advantageous.
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Glue
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Matillion Data Productivity...
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of AWS Glue is 21.3%, down from 21.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Matillion Data Productivity Cloud is 3.4%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Data Integration
 

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.
Jacques Du Preez - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers good user interface and easy to navigate
Our experience is mainly around using Snowflake Data Cloud with Matillion. And the two of them combined, offer superior performance and price point benefits. Using them together is very efficient because Matillion's processing and Snowflake's own scalability and consumption based on pushing down code work well together. They are very efficient. We've used Azure Data Factory (ADF) for integration. So that's an alternative, depending on customer choice for the integration. And then on AWS, a few of the other services, like Terraform, and S3 storage, and that's about it. It's on a case-by-case basis. If they've chosen ADF as a technology, then we implement using that choice.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How do you select the right cloud ETL tool?
AWS Glue and Azure Data factory for ELT best performance cloud services.
How does Talend Open Studio compare with AWS Glue?
We reviewed AWS Glue before choosing Talend Open Studio. AWS Glue is the managed ETL (extract, transform, and load) from Amazon Web Services. AWS Glue enables AWS users to create and manage jobs in...
What are the most common use cases for AWS Glue?
AWS Glue's main use case is for allowing users to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. The product lets you use this data for analytics, application development, or ma...
What do you like most about Matillion ETL?
The new version with the Productivity Cloud is very simple. It's easy to use, navigate, and understand.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Matillion ETL?
The solution's pricing is not based on the licensing cost but on the running hours when the Matillion instance is up and running. Its pricing model is different from the traditional pricing models ...
What needs improvement with Matillion ETL?
Depending on the use case, the solution's pricing could be improved. Matillion ETL should include more enhanced capabilities for extracting data from the SAP systems.
 

Also Known As

No data available
Matillion ETL for Redshift, Matillion ETL for Snowflake, Matillion ETL for BigQuery
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

bp, Cerner, Expedia, Finra, HESS, intuit, Kellog's, Philips, TIME, workday
Thrive Market, MarketBot, PWC, Axtria, Field Nation, GE, Superdry, Quantcast, Lightbox, EDF Energy, Finn Air, IPRO, Twist, Penn National Gaming Inc
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