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AWS Glue vs Airbyte Cloud comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

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
4.4
Airbyte Cloud boosts productivity, reducing data prep time and costs by up to 70%, eliminating dedicated data engineers.
Sentiment score
5.9
Organizations find AWS Glue efficient and cost-effective despite overhead costs, though some consider alternatives due to budget constraints.
We also avoid hiring a dedicated data engineer for pipeline maintenance, which has saved us a significant salary.
Product Manager Intern at a agriculture with 11-50 employees
I have observed a return on investment with 30 to 70 percent of costs saved.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
The main benefit was reducing engineering time spent maintaining custom ingestion pipelines and lowering operational overhead around data syncs, which indirectly contributes to efficiency.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
I advocate using Glue in such cases.
Data Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
3.4
Airbyte Cloud customer service is professional, quick, often resolves issues internally, with users praising responsive and helpful support.
Sentiment score
6.5
AWS Glue customer service is praised for responsiveness and effectiveness, with mixed feedback on support speed, costs, and consistency.
Airbyte Cloud's customer support is professional and quite responsive.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
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
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
4.1
Airbyte Cloud offers robust scalability, efficiently supporting data growth and parallel syncs, with users praising its flexible scaling capabilities.
Sentiment score
7.8
AWS Glue is highly scalable and serverless, praised for easy resource management, but needs better parallel computation.
We can run multiple syncs in parallel at the same time.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
Airbyte Cloud is highly scalable, and we can scale it up whenever required on demand.
Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Airbyte Cloud scales well as our data needs grow to a scale of ten.
Product Manager Intern at a agriculture with 11-50 employees
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
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Airbyte Cloud offers stable syncs with reliable accuracy, surpassing Fivetran, despite minor issues and occasional glitches.
Sentiment score
7.9
AWS Glue is stable and reliable with minor issues, scaling well, and efficient due to serverless architecture and tool integration.
The incremental sync feature is particularly very accurate as it only moves new or changed records, which keeps our warehouse clean and our data cost-controlled.
Product Manager Intern at a agriculture with 11-50 employees
Airbyte Cloud has handled our workloads well for scheduled syncs between Postgres and a few SaaS sources and Snowflake.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
AWS Glue is highly stable, and I would rate its stability as nine.
Python AWS & AI Expert at a tech consulting company
 

Room For Improvement

Airbyte Cloud requires AI improvements, better error messages, UI simplification, security enhancements, and improved connectors and reporting features.
AWS Glue faces challenges with startup times, interface complexity, language limitations, cost, performance, integration, and multi-cloud compatibility.
A more user-friendly error explanation would be beneficial.
Product Manager Intern at a agriculture with 11-50 employees
Comprehensive video tutorials, demonstrations, or proper documentation would be beneficial.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
Error debugging depth in the UI, more granular visibility into why a sync failed, and better handling or guidance around schema changes when they happen frequently in source systems.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
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
 

Setup Cost

Airbyte Cloud users reported significantly lower costs than competitors, with savings of 30-70% compared to Fivetran.
AWS Glue offers flexible, efficient serverless architecture but can be costly and unpredictable, especially for smaller organizations.
Its price is 30 to 70 percent lower compared to competitor tools in the market.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
I think the overall cost was relatively low, so I don't think we had any issues with billing or costs.
Senior Product Analyst at Argyle
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
 

Valuable Features

Airbyte Cloud streamlines data integration with no-code setup, extensive connectors, and automated scheduling for improved workflow and efficiency.
AWS Glue excels with its easy interface, scalable ETL processing, seamless AWS integration, affordability, and serverless architecture.
Definitely the pre-built connectors have been the most valuable feature for my team, and it has made my workflow easier.
Product Manager Intern at a agriculture with 11-50 employees
The best features I found most useful were the large number of pre-built connectors, the managed scheduling for syncs, and the ability to monitor sync status and failures through the UI without needing to maintain infrastructure.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
The best feature that I have liked about it is the scheduling and automation features that help reduce manual effort significantly in moving data between systems.
Python Developer at Appice
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
 

Categories and Ranking

Airbyte Cloud
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
15th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
4.5
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (20th)
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
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of Airbyte Cloud is 0.8%. The mindshare of AWS Glue is 7.8%, down from 16.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Glue7.8%
Airbyte Cloud0.8%
Other91.4%
Cloud Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

ParthasarathyT - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
Centralized data pipelines have reduced costs and now power faster analytics and reporting
The best features Airbyte Cloud offers include the centralization of data for analytics by combining data from SaaS tools, databases, and APIs into one place. It enables production models, BI reporting, and ML use cases. Airbyte Cloud has a huge connector ecosystem with over 600 connectors across SaaS tools, databases, apps, and platforms that can be integrated. Faster integration requires less engineering work. Automation and reliability are significant features, allowing me to schedule syncs daily with auto-retry, logging, and alerting capabilities. Incremental updates such as CDC for efficiency are available. Airbyte Cloud is a managed cloud solution with no infrastructure worries, as everything is managed. It is customizable, and the significant difference is that we have full control. It is also more cost-effective than competitors.Airbyte Cloud has positively impacted my organization by reducing the manpower required for managing the underlying resources of a data sync. It directly performs the job that a database engineer would do by managing a huge connector ecosystem with over 600 connectors across SaaS tools and databases, enabling faster integration. Whenever new data arrives, it automatically syncs to the destination source without requiring any engineer to manually copy or replicate the data. This approach helps our organization significantly.
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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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
22%
Computer Software Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise34
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Airbyte Cloud?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that I did not deal with the billing side of Airbyte Cloud, but I think the overall cost was relatively low, so I don't think we had any iss...
What needs improvement with Airbyte Cloud?
The areas for improvement could be more detailed error logs. The error logs that are coming are not very comprehensive, but they could provide more detailed error messages. Additionally, an enhance...
What is your primary use case for Airbyte Cloud?
I use Airbyte Cloud primarily for data integration and ETL workflows between different systems and destination databases. My setup is straightforward with Airbyte Cloud, and I use it for creating n...
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...
 

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Sample Customers

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