AWS Glue Partner Review
September 10, 2025

AWS Glue Partner Review

Sonny Carlos | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with AWS Glue

As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, we use AWS Glue in many of our Data and Analytics Solutions. We've implemented in the major enterprises in the Philippines that are in the media, telecommunication, logistics and Fintech industries. The company aims to centralize their data lake of operational raw data containing various shipping details by making use of the AWS platform.The architecture must involve an automation of the data extraction from an API. The data lake should also be visualized to provide graphical details using QuickSight, and the generated dashboards are to be embedded into the customer web portal. AWS Services implemented - Lambda, S3, Glue, ATHENA, Quicksight, EventBridge

Pros

  • After data cleansing, the team also implemented the best practices for using AWS platform services as a Data Lake, such as job bookmarking for AWS Glue jobs, proper delimiter for the AWS Glue crawlers, partitioning in AWS S3, and transformation to parquet file for compression and faster querying time in Amazon Athena.
  • Data modernization through combining data from multiple sources into a functioning datasets, rebuilding DW, and resctructuring data sources.
  • Aims to lessen customer complaints, eliminate manual data extraction requests via SR from different data sources, and Increase accuracy, consistency and speed up reconciliation process.

Cons

  • Faster processing, on cases where data is not partitioned efficiency
  • Cost optimization and pricing
  • Developer experience on new users
  • ROI
  • Faster processing of Data
  • Integration to ATHENA and other AWS Data Services
While easy to set up and manage monitoring for large datasets, its complexity can be a barrier for new users. Integration with AWS Ecosystem, Managed Monitoring, Dashboards and monitoring tools for AWS Glue are generally easy to set up and maintain, Automated Data Pipelines. Automates data pipeline creation, making it efficient for certain data integration
Glue is easier especially if you are already in AWS. It easily integrates to other AWS services. Compliments well with Amazon Athena, S3, and Lake Formation. Compared to Snowflake, it is also much much cheaper and you don't have to build outside AWS. Support is also good if you are an AWS Partner.

Do you think AWS Glue delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with AWS Glue's feature set?

Yes

Did AWS Glue live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of AWS Glue go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy AWS Glue again?

Yes

Operational Excellence: A customer asked for guidance mostly from data ingestion to transformation. However, we advised the customer to use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor their own AWS Glue jobs since when we fix their glue job errors, we rely more on CloudWatch information to resolve issues.

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