We performed a comparison between AWS AppSync and AWS Glue based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), MuleSoft, Matillion and others in Cloud Data Integration."Support for multiple data sources and formats is a fantastic feature."
"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 for me is the visual interface of AWS Glue."
"It's fairly straightforward as a product; it's not very complicated."
"AWS Glue's most valuable features are the data catalog, including crawlers and tables, and Glue Studio, which means you don't have to use custom code."
"Glue is a NoSQL-based data ETL tool that has some advantages over IIS and ISAs."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is scalability."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Moving to other clouds is impossible without significantly rearchitecting your applications."
"Overall, I consider the technical support to be fine, although the response time could be faster in certain cases."
"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."
"AWS Glue would be improved by making it easier to switch from single to multi-cloud."
"In terms of improvement, the performance of AWS Glue could be faster."
"I have encountered challenges with multi-region support."
"There is a learning curve to this tool."
"The solution should offer features for streaming data in addition to batching data."
"On occasion, the solution's dashboard reports that a project failed due to runtime but it actually succeeded."
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AWS AppSync is ranked 25th in Cloud Data Integration while AWS Glue is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Integration with 37 reviews. AWS AppSync is rated 9.0, while AWS Glue is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AWS AppSync writes "Innovative, works well with GraphQL, and can connect to any type of data source". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Glue writes "Provides serverless mechanism, easy data transformation and automated infrastructure management". AWS AppSync is most compared with Oracle Integration Cloud Service, Workato and Perspectium DataSync, whereas AWS Glue is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio.
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