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AWS Glue

84Judge labels
1First choices
20Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Data virtualization for small business buyers
Rank 13 of 75 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 21% of its 28 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of AWS Glue →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In etl · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named AWS Glue for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
ETL and ELTData platform0%13 of 7521%28accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Data virtualizationData platform0%27 of 990%1under 10 labels · led by Denodo at 28%

Movement

Since September 2026, AWS Glue held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · ETL · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 40 → 53 of 61
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 14 of 69, unchanged
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 9 → 12 of 64

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
ETL0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 14 → 13 of 75
Data virtualization0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 27 of 99, unchanged

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated AWS Glue across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501113
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01113
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.2000314
Mistral Small00202
DeepSeek V4 Flash00202
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01102
Kimi K201203
GLM 4.7 FlashX00213
MiniMax M2.501113
GPT-6 Luna02013
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct15 labels1
Paraphrase5 labelsNone
Comparative27 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained12 labelsNone
Scale-constrained8 labelsNone
Negative17 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative84 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Best used for: Teams already committed to AWS or Azure infrastructure who have some cloud engineering expertise.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ETL · budget prompt · alternative
“Cloud-native tool (AWS Glue/Azure Data Factory) if you're heavily invested in one cloud” Kimi K2 · ETL · scale prompt · alternative
“Consider it if your data stack is already on AWS and you're building batch-processing jobs” GPT-6 Luna · ETL · budget prompt · alternative
“Already on AWS and want serverless | AWS Glue (free tier first year)” MiniMax M2.5 · ETL · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Cloud-Specific Tools to Avoid: AWS Glue - Limited transformation capabilities compared to enterprise tools” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ETL · negative prompt · hard negative
“don’t start new work on AWS Glue 2.0; AWS lists it as end-of-life as of April 1, 2026” GPT-6 Luna · ETL · negative prompt · hard negative
“AWS Glue (The "Overkill & Cold-Start" Danger)... often a trap for teams with small-to-medium data sizes” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ETL · negative prompt · soft negative
“Some users report difficulties with debugging, and there's ecosystem lock-in concerns” MiniMax M2.5 · ETL · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as AWS Glue, over the 84 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AWS Glue was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Fivetran59 of 8415Not among the top eight
Talend49 of 843Not among the top eight
Airbyte47 of 849Not among the top eight
Azure Data Factory41 of 840Not among the top eight
Matillion39 of 841Not among the top eight
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud30 of 845Not among the top eight
Stitch26 of 840Not among the top eight
dbt24 of 842Not among the top eight
Hevo Data23 of 841Not among the top eight
Apache Airflow22 of 841Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named AWS Glue. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 74 of the 84 answers that named AWS Glue and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

fivetran.com37
integrate.io36
hevodata.com32
airbyte.com31
g2.com30
estuary.dev27
domo.com24
blog.coupler.io19
dataquest.io17
learn.g2.com15

268 of the 268 domain citations in answers naming AWS Glue came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where AWS Glue stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Searches for its name, Google
6,600 a month (“aws glue”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
864 a month
Its own site
It sits on AWS's site (aws.amazon.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 13 of 75 in ETL
Segment leader
40%
Fivetran
First choices
1 across its categories
Named in
84 answers
Its own site cited
in 74 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as AWS Glue

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as AWS Glue; a claim can dispute any of them.
AWS Glue 2.0 1

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The company

AWS is the company behind AWS Glue.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Price stated
AWS Glue 6.0 is also priced 30 percent lower per DPU-hour than AWS Glue 5.1 aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/build-declarative-etl-pipelines-with-aws-glue-6-0
Hosting
all regions where Glue is offeredevery AWS Region where Amazon Q is available
Not stated on the pages read
Starting price, free plan or trial, certifications, customers

What AWS Glue's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-serverless-streaming-etl-with-aws-glue, aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/process-price-transparency-data-using-aws-glue, aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/build-declarative-etl-pipelines-with-aws-glue-6-0, aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/introducing-amazon-q-data-integration-in-aws-glue, aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/crafting-serverless-streaming-etl-jobs-with-aws-glue. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where AWS Glue is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name AWS Glue, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
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