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.
"It's scalable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the one I use for report generation. The security risk is very low."
"AWS Database Migration Service is good for smaller workloads and provides compatibility."
"The initial setup is simple. Not that much complex."
"Even if it does break down, it will automatically recover itself and resumes from where it stopped."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The database migration services allow us to do real-time synchronization of on-premise and database to plan out our releases."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"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."
"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 product has a valuable feature for data catalog."
"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."
"I like its integration and ability to handle all data-related tasks."
"AWS Glue is a stable and easy-to-use solution."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The solution integrates well with other AWS products or services."
"The performance of data migration could be smoother."
"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."
"I think that Amazon needs to improve the migration scenarios after analytics"
"The solution’s scalability and performance could be improved."
"Support could be more expedient. Right now I am waiting on support for an extension."
"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."
"This solution can offer more tweaks where the latency can be brought down to fifteen seconds."
"The initial setup can be difficult for beginners in AWS Database Migration Service. You will need the training to complete it."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The monitoring is not that good."
"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."
"AWS Glue is more costly compared to other tools like Airflow."
"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."
"It is not clear how the partition discovery would have been affected by more data coming in."
"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."
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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 SSIS, whereas AWS Glue is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Talend Open Studio and Confluent. See our AWS Database Migration Service vs. AWS Glue report.
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