We compared AWS Database Migration Service and AWS Glue based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
AWS Database Migration Service is praised for seamless integration, efficient migration, and customer support, while customers find the pricing competitive. In contrast, AWS Glue is commended for efficient data integration, automation, and robust processing power. Users also value its customer service and flexible pricing. Areas for improvement for Database Migration include setup streamlining, improved documentation, monitoring enhancement, and complexity reduction, while Glue users suggest user-friendliness, better troubleshooting documentation, performance and reliability improvements, and advanced customization options.
Features: The valuable features of AWS Database Migration Service include seamless integration with other AWS services, efficient data migration, user-friendly interface, robust data validation, and excellent customer support. On the other hand, AWS Glue stands out with its efficient data integration capabilities, advanced automation abilities, seamless integration with other AWS services, ease of setting up and monitoring data transformations, comprehensive pre-built connectors, and robust processing power.
Pricing and ROI: According to user feedback, AWS Database Migration Service offers reasonable setup costs and flexible licensing options. On the other hand, AWS Glue has minimal setup costs, a straightforward licensing process, and an affordable pricing structure. Users have expressed satisfaction with Glue's hassle-free setup and fair licensing terms., The ROI from utilizing AWS Database Migration Service has been profitable, while AWS Glue offers a valuable and cost-effective solution with scalability and flexibility.
Room for Improvement: Areas for improvement in AWS Database Migration Service include streamlining setup, improving documentation, addressing compatibility issues, enhancing monitoring capabilities, and reducing overall complexity. On the other hand, AWS Glue users have suggested improvements in user-friendliness, documentation, reliability, performance, customization options, advanced features, and specific use case capabilities.
Deployment and customer support: In comparing the user reviews for AWS Database Migration Service and AWS Glue, it can be seen that some users reported spending three months on deployment and an additional week on setup for AWS Database Migration Service. On the other hand, for AWS Glue, various timeframes were mentioned, including three months for deployment and an additional week for setup. However, if users mentioned a week for both deployment and setup, it implies that these terms refer to the same period and should be considered as one., The customer service and support provided by AWS Database Migration Service have been praised for their excellence, responsiveness, and knowledge. On the other hand, users have expressed satisfaction with AWS Glue's customer service, describing it as reliable, helpful, and responsive.
The summary above is based on 51 interviews we conducted recently with AWS Database Migration Service and AWS Glue users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"What I like about AWS Database Migration Service is that it's a good product that allows you to migrate terabytes of data. My team was able to migrate almost 16TB of data using AWS Database Migration Service. The solution works fine for my use case."
"The product is cheaper than all platforms"
"Support is helpful."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Database Migration Service is it catches all the history changes, such as inset, observe, and delete. It tracks everything."
"We particularly like that this solution has the facility to integrate with all ETL tools."
"It's scalable."
"If your infrastructure is already on Amazon, it simply makes the most sense to use a tool officially provided by them as an additional service, rather than having to rely on a third-party solution."
"I like that I can focus on the logic and I don't have to worry about the administration stuff. AWS handles that for me."
"What I like best about AWS Glue is its real-time data backup feature. Last week, there was a production push, and what used to take almost ten days to send out around fifty-six thousand emails now takes only two hours."
"The facility to integrate with S3 and the possibility to use Jupyter Notebook inside the pipeline are the most valuable features."
"We no longer had to worry much about infrastructure management because AWS Glue is serverless, and Amazon takes care of the underlying infrastructure."
"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 solution is serverless so it allows us to transform data while optimizing the cost and performance of Spark jobs."
"The solution helps organizations gain flexibility in defining the structure of the data."
"The most valuable feature for me is the visual interface of AWS Glue."
"AWS Glue is fast and managed by AWS. Hence, you don't have to worry about capacity and the performance of Glue jobs. It has integrations with other data stores of AWS. The product offers metadata management, logging, and ETL processing capabilities. It comes with a powerful feature, Glue Studio, which helps to do queries interactively within the community. It is a managed service and very secure. Another popular and mature service is S3."
"Database Migration Service could be more integrated. I think that it makes sense to add integration to these functions. For example, AWS Glue has a feature called Orchestrator to create data flows, and that's more straightforward."
"The names of the services need improvement since AWS doesn't indicate what the function of the product is presently. You need to read a lot to find the service that you want in the product."
"Sometimes, the migration processes are not manageable"
"Support could be more expedient. Right now I am waiting on support for an extension."
"There is no connectivity to the source database or the target database."
"I think that Amazon needs to improve the migration scenarios after analytics"
"Whatever solution worked today can not be reused in the next migration."
"What needs improvement in AWS Database Migration Service is that it lacks a log file validation feature. If the solution could provide more details about a particular transaction, that would be helpful. The stability of AWS Database Migration Service for online CDC records also needs to be improved."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"We face performance issues when using AWS Glue for data transformation and integration."
"Overall, I consider the technical support to be fine, although the response time could be faster in certain cases."
"The monitoring is not that good."
"The mapping area and the use of the data catalog from Glue could be better."
"The solution's visual ETL tool is of no use for actual implementation."
"If there's a cluster-related configuration, we have to make worker notes, which is quite a headache when processing a large amount of data."
"I would like to see a more robust interface on the no-code side. This would be nice to be able to split cells."
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AWS Database Migration Service is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Integration with 27 reviews while AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews. AWS Database Migration Service is rated 7.8, while AWS Glue is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AWS Database Migration Service writes "A cloud solution for live replication but has stability issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Glue writes "Provides serverless mechanism, easy data transformation and automated infrastructure management". AWS Database Migration Service is most compared with Oracle GoldenGate, Qlik Replicate, Fivetran, Confluent and Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service, whereas AWS Glue is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, SSIS, Talend Open Studio and Oracle Integration Cloud Service. See our AWS Database Migration Service vs. AWS Glue report.
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