AWS Glue | Pricing and billing

Question 1

When should I use AWS Glue vs Amazon Kinesis Analytics?

Pricing and billing

AWS Glue | Analytics

Answer 1

Amazon Kinesis Analytics allows you to run standard SQL queries on your incoming data stream. You can specify a destination like Amazon S3 to write your results. Once your data is available in your target data source, you can kick off an AWS Glue ETL job to do further transform your data and prepare it for additional analytics and reporting.

Question 2

How am I charged for AWS Glue?

Pricing and billing

AWS Glue | Analytics

Answer 2

You will pay a simple monthly fee, above the AWS Glue Data Catalog free tier, for storing and accessing the metadata in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. Additionally, you will pay an hourly rate, billed per second, for the ETL job and crawler run, with a 10-minute minimum for each. If you choose to use a development endpoint to interactively develop your ETL code, you will pay an hourly rate, billed per second, for the time your development endpoint is provisioned, with a 10-minute minimum. For more details, please refer our pricing page.