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."AWS Glue is quite better than other tools, but you have to learn it properly before you start using it."
"The solution's technical support is good. Whenever we raise a use case where we face an issue in our company, we get a response from the solution's technical team."
"One of the best features of the solution is its ability to easily integrate with other AWS services."
"The key role for Glue is that it hosts our metadata before rolling out our actual data. This is the major advantage of using this solution and our clients client have been very satisfied with it."
"I like that it's flexible, powerful, and allows you to write your own queries and scripts to get the needed transformations."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is that it provides a GUI format with a drag-and-drop feature."
"The most valuable feature for me is the visual interface of AWS Glue."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is very intuitive and has a very flat learning curve."
"What's most valuable in Zapier is its simplicity, seamlessness, and smooth plug-in, so you won't need to build code for every action. I'm not a developer, but I can use Zapier."
"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."
"The connection between Facebook lead forms and MailChimp integrations is the most valuable feature."
"With the previous CRM we were using – the Google Ads landing pages we had – we were collecting leads manually. That process was not efficient and took a sales team a lot of time to insert these leads manually. Currently, the process is smooth and we use Zapier to collect the leads for us."
"Zapier's interface, for me, is the solution's greatest value proposition. It is designed and developed for people who don't have a clue about what they're trying to do. It has a very user-friendly interface."
"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."
"We can connect Zapier with Zoho CRM for lead generation. I like the tool's drag and drop feature."
"I haven't looked into Glue in terms of seeking out flaws. I've not come across missing features."
"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."
"The solution's visual ETL tool is of no use for actual implementation."
"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."
"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 should be more connectors for different databases."
"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."
"With Zapier, improvements are required in the areas of concerns like bugs, ease of use, and documentation."
"After mapping them out, and they'd worked for a while, I've had Zapier fail."
"The pricing could be a little cheaper."
"Some recent changes to the solution have made it bulky and not as intuitive to use as it previously was."
"There is room for improvement in the support. They are not responsive, and they don't take much time to get resolved."
"Being able to share Zaps and organize them with teammates would allow sharing and refining scenarios and even combining steps that require different people's credentials."
"Zapier needs more YouTube or video tutorials or more training for people. That would help a lot. In particular, Zapier should have documentation for every connector. Its documentation needs to be more detailed and visual."
"It is not worth the money if you have a little bit of a technical mind...Zapier is not able to set up different modules. When automation doesn't work, it's not that easy to find why it didn't work."
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, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration 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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