AWS Glue Alternatives (January 2026)

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully managed, serverless data streaming service that stores and ingests various streaming data in real time at any scale.

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data.

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service that provides a simplified and flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives.

Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto.

AWS Lake Formation makes it easier to centrally govern, secure, and globally share data for analytics and machine learning.

Amazon AppFlow is an integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between SaaS applications and AWS services without code.

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-native, serverless, business intelligence (BI) with native machine learning (ML) integrations and usage-based pricing, allowing insights for all users.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is a highly resilient, secure cloud service that provides database discovery, schema conversion, data migration, and ongoing replication to and from a wide range of databases and analytics systems.

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, serverless time series database service for Internet of Things (IoT) and operational applications that helps you store and analyze time series data.