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AWS Glue vs SnapLogic comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.9
Organizations find AWS Glue efficient and cost-effective despite overhead costs, though some consider alternatives due to budget constraints.
Sentiment score
6.5
SnapLogic optimizes operational efficiency by reducing costs, automating processes, and improving productivity with a low-code platform.
I advocate using Glue in such cases.
Data Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
SnapLogic is really helpful and processes in very little time, so it doesn't take much time compared to any legacy tool.
Technical Specialist App Development at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.
The reports and pipelines run, leading to cost savings that reduce manual effort and save 50,000 to 150,000 USD annually.
Product Manager at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Suppose there was an issue resolution time of 10 hours for the previous manual effort; now it is reduced to one hour or half an hour.
Integration Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
AWS Glue customer service is praised for responsiveness and effectiveness, with mixed feedback on support speed, costs, and consistency.
Sentiment score
6.9
SnapLogic customer service is generally positive, praised for responsiveness and resolution, though expertise and response times vary.
Upgrades occur every four months, and new developments coincide with version updates.
Principal Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
For complex Glue-related problems such as job failures or permission issues, their documentation is good, but having direct access to support helps cut down troubleshooting time significantly.
application security engineer at Hyperspace IT India
The responsiveness, technical expertise, knowledge base and documentation, support channels, and continuous improvement were impeccable.
Product Manager at a university with 501-1,000 employees
They are providing the best customer support to the organization and the vendors.
Integration Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have been very impressed with how responsive they are and how well they take feedback and they value my team's experience.
Senior Software Engineer at Cooperative Benefits Group
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
AWS Glue is highly scalable and serverless, praised for easy resource management, but needs better parallel computation.
Sentiment score
7.3
SnapLogic offers scalable and adaptable integration solutions, supporting multi-cloud and on-premise environments, suitable for growing enterprises.
It is beneficial to upgrade jobs, and we conduct extensive testing in development before migrating to production.
Principal Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
It can easily handle data from one terabyte to 100 terabytes or more, scaling nicely with larger datasets.
Python AWS & AI Expert at a tech consulting company
After implementing SnapLogic, pipelines that processed one to two million records per week can now handle five to 10 million records without additional infrastructure.
Product Manager at a university with 501-1,000 employees
That means you can connect any system or application anytime, whether day or night, scheduled or dynamic, and anywhere, whether it is cloud or on-premises.
Integration Solution Architect at Hitachi Digital
It supports enterprise-wide integration and has a cloud-native architecture.
Integration Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
AWS Glue is stable and reliable with minor issues, scaling well, and efficient due to serverless architecture and tool integration.
Sentiment score
7.5
SnapLogic is stable and effective with minimal downtime, though some prefer Boomi for better stability during specific updates.
AWS Glue is highly stable, and I would rate its stability as nine.
Python AWS & AI Expert at a tech consulting company
I would rate the stability of SnapLogic as nearly ten out of ten.
Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
But recently, in a year, I haven't found many performance issues in SnapLogic.
Technical Specialist App Development at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.
However, sometimes we see that SnapLogic is unstable during patch releases or Snap Pack releases.
Integration Solution Architect at Hitachi Digital
 

Room For Improvement

AWS Glue faces challenges with startup times, interface complexity, language limitations, cost, performance, integration, and multi-cloud compatibility.
SnapLogic requires improved data transparency, error handling, integration, APIs, security, and user-friendly interfaces, with enhanced performance and support.
Migrating jobs from version 3.0 to 4.0 can present compatibility issues.
Principal Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
With AWS, I gather data from multiple sources, clean it up, normalize it, de-duplicate it, and make it presentable.
Data Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
A more user-friendly and simpler process would help speed up the deployment process.
Python AWS & AI Expert at a tech consulting company
We require a data pipeline that can be read without latency and without any delay.
Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
IP whitelisting is the area that SnapLogic definitely has to improve.
Integration Solution Architect at Hitachi Digital
If the AI capabilities and integrations were more intuitive and easy to learn for new users, it would be greatly beneficial.
Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

AWS Glue offers flexible, efficient serverless architecture but can be costly and unpredictable, especially for smaller organizations.
SnapLogic offers flexible, subscription-based pricing, though perceived costly by some, justified by capabilities and low initial setup costs.
Costing depends on resource usage, and cost optimization may involve redesigning jobs for flexibility.
Principal Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
AWS charges based on runtime, which can be quite pricey.
Data Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The smallest cost for a project is around €700, while the largest can reach up to €7,000 based on the scale of the usage.
Python AWS & AI Expert at a tech consulting company
I feel SnapLogic is very expensive compared to others.
Integration Solution Architect at Hitachi Digital
There would be only one point of improvement if the price could be lower.
Head of Data Practice at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
SnapLogic is positioned at around seven or eight out of ten in terms of pricing.
Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

AWS Glue excels with its easy interface, scalable ETL processing, seamless AWS integration, affordability, and serverless architecture.
SnapLogic excels with its ETL capabilities, user-friendly interface, automation, real-time processing, and robust monitoring for efficient workflows.
For ETL, I feel the performance is excellent. If I create jobs in a standard way, the performance is great, and maintenance is also seamless.
Principal Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
AWS Glue's most valuable features include its transformation capabilities, which provide data quality and shape for processing in ML or AI models.
Python AWS & AI Expert at a tech consulting company
AWS Glue has reduced efforts by 60%, which is the main benefit.
application security engineer at Hyperspace IT India
I also like the whole child-parent pipeline feature; it allows me to break up a process into smaller pieces and then have one big pipeline that controls these smaller pipelines.
Head of Data Practice at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
SnapLogic provides inbuilt Snaplets, such as creating and closing an audit ID, removing duplicates, joining tables, writing to Oracle, files, XML, SF, SMTP connections, and more.
Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
SnapLogic excels in data transformations, monitoring, and observability, providing scalability controls for the pipelines.
Senior Data Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Glue
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SnapLogic
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
34
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (10th), Process Automation (7th), API Management (10th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of AWS Glue is 7.8%, down from 16.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SnapLogic is 3.4%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Glue7.8%
SnapLogic3.4%
Other88.8%
Cloud Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

NS
Principal Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution improves ETL performance but faces challenges with version upgrades
For ETL, I feel the performance is excellent. If I create jobs in a standard way, the performance is great, and maintenance is also seamless. It is serverless, so I do not need to worry about other integrations. It runs on a serverless VM. Glue services from AWS are regularly upgraded with new properties and functions. We use PySpark and other frameworks, which help customize our ETL process in a standard way. During our process, we utilized the typical SQL ITIL process standard in Glue-oriented ETL services, which helped us improve performance and time. AWS running time, mostly during the morning, saved us time compared to the old ETL method. There are many email notifications once a job is successful or fails, and we get notifications using SES or AWS's Simple Notification Service. Glue is integrated with both email alerts, and we are responsible for managing the full data journey from end to end.
AR
Integration Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Low-code integrations have automated workflows and save time across enterprise applications
They can enhance the error handling and debugging part. Troubleshooting complex pipeline failures can be time-consuming. We are spending a lot of time on error handling. More detailed error messages and root cause analysis tools can be added, which will definitely improve the developer experience. In the Ultra real-time integrations, we can monitor the last execution history of only 100 runs. That can be increased, which would be one of the platform improvements that can really be taken. However, they are doing very well because lots of ChatGPTs and AI assistants have been added in the last two years, which makes a very good effect. SnapLogic is the only platform that provides this kind of visibility to the developers. Anyone, even if they have low experience and are starting their IT careers, can directly jump in and learn SnapLogic. The documentation is very easy to learn. Anyone, even a layman, can refer to that documentation and go through its Snap-pack to understand what configuration has to be done to use this Snap-pack. This makes SnapLogic definitely exceptional in the market. You won't find such comprehensive documentation in other iPaaS tools. The draggable packs truly demonstrate its power in usability. Governance and security are also well in place in SnapLogic, but there are areas for improvement. They can add more granular role and permission controls that provide greater flexibility for large enterprises. For example, if you have to provide access to 70 users in one shot, that can be improved. More improvements in policy enforcement capabilities are possible as well. SnapLogic can improve the data lineage part to achieve better end-to-end visibility into data movement. Also, during validation, we can only see up to 2,000 records currently. They can increase that from 2,000 to 20,000. They can put more visibility on costs and resource visibility, with better reporting on platform usage, processing consumption, and cost optimization opportunities.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise34
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise18
 

Questions from the Community

How do you select the right cloud ETL tool?
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What are the most common use cases for AWS Glue?
AWS Glue's main use case is for allowing users to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. The product lets you use this data for analytics, application development, or ma...
What needs improvement with SnapLogic?
One thing I do not like about SnapLogic is some of the pre-built snap packs. If I want to integrate with a new system, I have to pay to get access to those. There have been a couple of instances of...
What is your primary use case for SnapLogic?
SnapLogic is my primary automation and integration platform that I use daily. A specific example of how I use SnapLogic day-to-day involves a number of different syncs, such as having CRM data from...
What advice do you have for others considering SnapLogic?
My advice to others looking into using SnapLogic is to consider the positive features I have mentioned before, as well as being aware of the downside of having to pay more to unlock more features. ...
 

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Sample Customers

bp, Cerner, Expedia, Finra, HESS, intuit, Kellog's, Philips, TIME, workday
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