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."It is a stable and scalable solution."
"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 its ease of use and good documentation. Additionally, we can do all the transformations that we need."
"One of the best features of the solution is its ability to easily integrate with other AWS services."
"I also like that you can add custom libraries like JAR files and use them. So, the ability to use a fast processing engine and embed basic jobs easily are significant advantages."
"I like the fact that AWS Glue works with Python scripts."
"Its user interface is quite good. You just need to choose some options to create a job in AWS Glue. The code-generation feature is also useful. If you don't want to customize it and simply want to read a file and store the data in the database, it can generate the code for you."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is scalability."
"Zapier handles everything under the sun that you would think you need in automation. It is the most mature integration platform and service on the market."
"We can connect Zapier with Zoho CRM for lead generation. I like the tool's drag and drop feature."
"Zapier is user friendly and makes it easy to integrate different tools. It has a drag and drop functionality which makes it easy to connect environments."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"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 most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is very intuitive and has a very flat learning curve."
"The most valuable feature of Zapier is it saves me time doing repetitive tasks."
"The product's most valuable feature is automation."
"The start-up time is really high right now. For instance, when you start up a new job, you have to wait for five or eight minutes before it starts. If the start-up time is reduced to one or two minutes, it will be great. It will be better to have a direct linkage to Redshift in AWS. If we can use data catalogs from Redshift, it will be so easy to create some data catalogs. Currently, we can only use data catalogs from S3."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved. In future, we would like to connect more services like Athena or Kinesis to help control more loads of data."
"The solution's visual ETL tool is of no use for actual implementation."
"The product is expensive for data streaming. This area needs improvement."
"I would like to see stable libraries at the moment they are not there."
"The setup and installation is a bit complex without advanced knowledge or training."
"In terms of improvement, the performance of AWS Glue could be faster."
"One area that could be improved is the ETL view. The drag-and-drop interface is not as user-friendly as some other ETL tools."
"There is room for improvement in the support. They are not responsive, and they don't take much time to get resolved."
"Some recent changes to the solution have made it bulky and not as intuitive to use as it previously was."
"I think that this solution should have more apps connected to it."
"System-to-system is fine, but when it comes to system-to-user, where Zapier is helping to communicate to a user, that's a one-way communication. If that user has to perform some action on that notification, the action isn't handled by Zapier. So there's no way to orchestrate that and it's very cumbersome."
"The pricing of the solution is quite expensive."
"After mapping them out, and they'd worked for a while, I've had Zapier fail."
"The user interface for Zapier could be improved. It also takes some time to sync the data between different environments."
"My biggest concern with Zapier would be their pricing strategy."
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, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, SSIS and Talend Open Studio, whereas Zapier is most compared with Alteryx Designer, Tray.io, Coefficient, MuleSoft Composer and Coupler.io. See our AWS Glue vs. Zapier report.
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