We performed a comparison between AWS Glue and Informatica Cloud Data Integration based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: For users vested in the AWS ecosystem, AWS is hands down the best choice. Informatica Cloud Data Integration is flexible and allows users to decide how to distribute their IPUs in their own networks. Data residency laws make it challenging to choose this solution, as their regions are currently very limited.
"AWS Glue is a stable and easy-to-use solution."
"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 helps organizations gain flexibility in defining the structure of the data."
"I appreciate AWS Glue for its cost-effectiveness."
"It's fairly straightforward as a product; it's not very complicated."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The most valuable features currently are glue studio, jobs, and triggers."
"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."
"It is quite easy to use and flexible."
"The data mapping capability is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of Informatica Cloud Data Integration for our clients are the AI capabilities within Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services."
"We have a lot of integrations, and it's very easy to create integrations. They have a lot of connectors."
"The user interface which is very easy to use if we have any problems to solve."
"Replication allows us to fully replicate all objects from Shop Floor Data Collection (SFDC) to in-house/on-premises database in one job."
"The most valuable feature is the building of mockups and tasks."
"The Mapping Configuration and PowerCenter wizards are valuable. We use them to run our business logic."
"There is a learning curve to this tool."
"Cost-wise, AWS Glue is expensive, so that's an area for improvement. The process for setting up the solution was also complex, which is another area for improvement."
"I have encountered challenges with multi-region support."
"It is not clear how the partition discovery would have been affected by more data coming in."
"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."
"Only people who can code, either in Java or Python, can use the product freely. Those who don't know Java or Python might find using AWS Glue difficult."
"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."
"User/group administration could use improvement."
"While my company operates on the cloud, we have seen that Informatica Cloud Data Integration has some performance issues causing it to lag."
"Its features for partitioning and optimization could be better."
"The vendor should have more training resources: online classes, free tutorial videos, etc."
"The cloud version of the Informatica, it's a very substandard product. They might say it's enterprise-ready but it's not at all ready. They need to add more features, such as improved data replication features. If you look at other tools, such as Matillion they are now cloud-native and flexible. Additionally, Informatica Cloud Data Integration should have a good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to Informatica Cloud Data Integration."
"I would also like to have profiling functionalities and quality transformations in the cloud."
"Cost-wise, it could be better."
"Informatica Cloud Data Integration can improve by being more user-friendly. When you're working with the solution a lot of technical knowledge is required. It's not a solution that anyone can use properly, you need knowledge of what's happening at the back end, such as SQL. When you get stuck, you need to look into your logic. For other tools, such as Dell Boomi, anyone can use them."
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AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews while Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews. AWS Glue is rated 7.8, while Informatica Cloud Data Integration is rated 7.8. 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 Informatica Cloud Data Integration writes "A stable, scalable, and user-friendly solution". AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Talend Open Studio and Oracle Integration Cloud Service, whereas Informatica Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory, Fivetran, IBM Cloud Pak for Data and Mule Anypoint Platform. See our AWS Glue vs. Informatica Cloud Data Integration report.
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