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What's the Difference Between Amazon AppFlow and AWS Glue?

Compare Amazon AppFlow and AWS Glue side by side — features, pricing, and ideal use cases to help you choose the right product.

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Amazon AppFlow
AWS Glue
Category

Analytics, Data Integration

Analytics, Data integration / ETL

Description

No-code integration for SaaS apps & AWS services

Simple, scalable, and serverless data integration

Best for
  • SaaS data ingestion
  • Data synchronization
  • CRM integration
  • Analytics pipelines
  • ETL
  • Data cataloging
  • Data preparation
  • Data lake management
  • Event-driven ETL
Key features
  • No-code interface
  • Data transformation
  • Encryption in transit
  • Scheduled & event-driven flows
  • Multiple SaaS connectors
  • Data Catalog
  • ETL engine
  • Crawlers
  • Job bookmarks
  • DataBrew
Pricing model

Pay per flow run + data processed

Pay per DPU-hour

Free tier

No

Yes

Expert take

“AppFlow transfers data between SaaS apps and AWS without writing code. It supports 50+ sources including Salesforce, SAP, and Google Analytics with built-in data transformation.”
— Gary McLean, re:Post Top Contributor [profile]

“Glue Data Catalog is the metadata backbone for Athena, Redshift Spectrum, and EMR; it tells them where data lives and what it looks like. The ETL engine runs Spark under the hood but with serverless scaling. Use crawlers to auto-discover schemas and partitions in S3.”
— Giovanni Lauria, re:Post Top Contributor [profile]

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When to use Amazon AppFlow or AWS Glue

Use Amazon AppFlow when:

  • SaaS data ingestion
  • Data synchronization
  • CRM integration
  • Analytics pipelines

Learn more about Amazon AppFlow »

Use AWS Glue when:

  • ETL
  • Data cataloging
  • Data preparation
  • Data lake management
  • Event-driven ETL

Learn more about AWS Glue »

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