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AWS Glue vs Tray.io comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

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
Tray.io
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
22nd
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (29th), Low-Code Development Platforms (27th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (17th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of AWS Glue is 7.6%, down from 19.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tray.io is 1.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Glue7.6%
Tray.io1.3%
Other91.1%
Cloud Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

SC
application security engineer at Hyperspace IT India
Efficient data integration reduces operational time and enhances metadata management
For the initial setup with AWS Glue, I find it easy to set up the data catalog and create Glue jobs using the visual editor or the visual code. Setting permission sets via IAM rules can be a bit tricky at the start, but we ensure Glue has access to AWS S3, Redshift, and other services. Once the role is configured, it runs smoothly. For advanced configurations, connecting to VPCs and setting up connections with JDBC sources takes more time compared to my cloud experience, but overall, for someone with cloud and ETL experience, the setup is manageable and well done.
SS
Principal AI and Data Science Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Marketing A/B tests have gained deeper insights from user behavior and unified global reporting
The best features Tray.io offers include excellent visualization capabilities and a dashboard, which stand out to me the most. I appreciate that it is very easy to convert the data we receive from Tray.io into dashboards from Power BI, which is extremely useful. I would also appreciate if in the future Tray.io provides a way to natively convert the data to Tableau. Tray.io has positively impacted my organization as it provides a trusted way to organize data results and share them throughout the company at once. As a multinational and very large company, it is definitely beneficial that those of us in the UK can use the same format that colleagues use in India, and the entire data architecture is framed within a trusted system from an established organization. As far as I know, Tray.io has been operating for the last 12 years, making it a very reliable system.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Its user interface is quite good; you just need to choose some options to create a job in AWS Glue, and the code-generation feature is also useful because 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."
"It's fairly straightforward as a product; it's not very complicated."
"One of the best features of the solution is its ability to easily integrate with other AWS services."
"Transformations are valuable because you can modify or override complex data logic from an open source or Spark to solve issues."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The solution helps organizations gain flexibility in defining the structure of the data."
"AWS Glue has its own data catalog, which makes it great and really easy to use."
"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."
"Tray.io has positively impacted my organization by helping us keep our internal database and this third-party service in sync, and it has really helped us automate a lot of that work because it is fairly straightforward to maintain and develop."
"Tray.io has positively impacted my organization by reducing the amount of redundant tasks that our team performs by approximately 80%, and the numbers are quite significant with the workflows alone, as we are working towards creating and utilizing AI within these workflows as well."
"Tray.io has positively impacted my organization as it provides a trusted way to organize data results and share them throughout the company at once."
 

Cons

"The monitoring is not that good."
"The process of entering environment variables in AWS Glue requires navigating to a different page, which could be streamlined."
"I would like to see stable libraries at the moment they are not there."
"Improvements in the UI are needed, as it is challenging to understand some functionalities."
"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."
"AWS Glue's error handling is difficult."
"We face performance issues when using AWS Glue for data transformation and integration."
"There should be more connectors for different databases."
"One way Tray.io could be improved, especially for people coming in with no real coding experience, is with more comprehensive error messages."
"I have found that the error management in my main use case with Tray.io is not as effective as we would prefer."
"As our product got more complex, we needed to add more and more complexity to Tray.io in terms of our setup, and that is when the benefits of it being no-code or low-code started to pale in comparison to the cost of making everything slightly more complicated."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the tool's pricing a four out of ten."
"The overall cost of AWS Glue could be better. It cost approximately $1,000 a month. There is paid support available from AWS Glue."
"Its price is good. We pay as we go or based on the usage, which is a good thing for us because it is simple to forecast for the tool. It is good in terms of the financial planning of the company, and it is a good way to estimate the cost. It is also simple for our clients. In my opinion, it is one of the best tools in the market for ETL processes because of the fact that you pay as you use, which separates it from other big tools such as PowerCenter, Pentaho Data Integration, and Talend."
"I rate the product's pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price, and ten is a low price."
"The solution's pricing is based on DPUs so it is a good idea to optimize use or it can get expensive."
"It is an expensive product. I rate its pricing a nine out of ten."
"AWS Glue is quite costly, especially for small organizations."
"AWS Glue follows a pay-as-you-go model, wherein the cost of the data you use will be counted as a monthly bill."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Construction Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise34
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Questions from the Community

How do you select the right cloud ETL tool?
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How does Talend Open Studio compare with AWS Glue?
We reviewed AWS Glue before choosing Talend Open Studio. AWS Glue is the managed ETL (extract, transform, and load) from Amazon Web Services. AWS Glue enables AWS users to create and manage jobs in...
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 Tray.io?
I believe Tray.io can be improved by offering integration with Tableau, which is still not available. I rated it an eight because there are still some things that can be improved, as I mentioned be...
What is your primary use case for Tray.io?
My main use case for Tray.io is to conduct A/B testing for marketing initiatives that the company has undertaken. We test the deployment of different campaigns across similar cohorts and evaluate w...
What advice do you have for others considering Tray.io?
My advice to others considering Tray.io is to trust the process because once the installation is complete, it is extremely easy to deploy and set up. I have rated this product an eight out of ten.
 

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