G2 Vendor Directory

AWS Lake Formation vs. AWS Glue

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAWS Lake Formation

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Glue

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.44.3
Review count38202
Ease of use8.98.6
Ease of setup8.78.8
Quality of support8.68.6
Meets requirements9.08.7
NPS63.63636448.453608
Small Business42.1%22.9%
Mid-Market23.7%28.4%
Enterprise34.2%48.8%
Total page views131580
Total LLM citations3872,467

AWS Lake Formation

AWS Lake Formation is a fully managed service to build, manage, secure, and share data in data lakes in days. You can centralize security and governance, and enable data sharing across the organization.

Pros

    AWS Glue

    AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easier for analytics users to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for analytics, machine learning, and application develop-ment. You can discover and connect to 70+ diverse data sources, manage your data in a centralized data catalog, and visually create, run, and monitor ETL pipelines to load data into your data lakes. You can im-mediately search and query catalogued data using Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift Spectrum.

    Pros

    • Ease of Use
    • Data Integration
    • Features
    • ETL Solutions
    • Data Lineage
    • Data Cataloging