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.
"Scalable and stable solution for migrating databases to AWS, with valuable features such as parallel full load and continuous data replication."
"It's scalable."
"The solution is instantaneous. We can launch the service and reduce the end number of manpower."
"Support is helpful."
"It's pretty useful when we need to migrate something big from a different type of database that AWS Data Migration Services supports."
"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."
"This solution is very good at mini-batch processing."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the one I use for report generation. The security risk is very low."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Glue is that it provides a GUI format with a drag-and-drop feature."
"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."
"AWS Glue's best features are scalability and cloud-based features."
"I like that it's flexible, powerful, and allows you to write your own queries and scripts to get the needed transformations."
"The solution integrates well with other AWS products or services."
"Data catalog and triggers are the two best features for me. AWS Glue has its own data catalog, which makes it great and really easy to use. Triggers are also really good for scheduling the ETL process."
"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."
"We no longer had to worry much about infrastructure management because AWS Glue is serverless, and Amazon takes care of the underlying infrastructure."
"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 server has limits on how many can connect to the database."
"There are a set of complexities and challenges when a user wants to integrate AWS products with Microsoft products."
"If they had some sort of functionality where, at a specific point in time, if I want to start a new job, it should automatically pick up from where it has been left rather than having people worry about the exact job number and the timing."
"The solution’s scalability and performance could be improved."
"Migrating from here and pushing the data from on-premise to AWS cloud is a big challenge and a few more services from AWS would be helpful. For example, we are currently using ILDB internet tools which move data from on-premise to the AWS cloud. A few more services would be really helpful for me to move the master data."
"Whatever solution worked today can not be reused in the next migration."
"We would like to see some improvement in the performance of large scale procedures, such as when we migrate from Oracle to csSQL."
"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."
"In terms of improvement, the performance of AWS Glue could be faster."
"Glue could perform better. It sometimes takes too long to test a Glue job. Google Cloud Platform offers more Python scripts than AWS."
"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."
"We face performance issues when using AWS Glue for data transformation and integration."
"The interface for AWS Glue could improve, they do not put a lot of details. You can write the code, in PySpark or in Scala, which is a big advantage, it is only easy to use for a developer. It will be difficult for new users to enter the cloud environment."
"The solution should offer features for streaming data in addition to batching data."
"AWS Glue would be improved by making it easier to switch from single to multi-cloud."
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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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