AWS Glue Pricing Calculator - ETL Jobs, Crawlers, DataBrew & Data Catalog

Flex execution offers approximately 34% cost savings at $0.29 per DPU-hour compared to standard execution. Flex jobs may have delayed start times (up to 5 minutes) based on available compute capacity. Ideal for non-urgent ETL workloads, batch processing, and cost-sensitive pipelines where immediate start time isn't critical.

Glue Crawlers cost $0.44 per DPU-hour, billed per second. A typical crawler running for 30 minutes with 2 DPUs costs approximately $0.44. Crawlers automatically discover data schemas and update the Data Catalog. Optimize costs by scheduling crawlers only when your data sources change rather than running them continuously.

The Glue Data Catalog includes a generous free tier: 1 million objects (tables, databases, partitions) stored and 1 million requests per month at no charge. Above the free tier, storage costs $1.00 per 100,000 objects. The Schema Registry has no additional charge.

Glue DataBrew has two pricing components: interactive sessions cost $1.00 per 30-minute session for visual data preparation, and job execution costs $0.48 per node-hour. A 10-minute job with 5 nodes would cost approximately $0.40. DataBrew is ideal for visual data preparation without writing code.

Glue Interactive Sessions provide interactive development and debugging at $0.44 per DPU-hour. Default configuration uses 5 DPUs, so a 30-minute session costs approximately $1.10. Sessions start in seconds and are ideal for developing and testing ETL code before deploying production jobs. Billed per second with a 1-minute minimum.

Glue Data Quality costs $0.44 per DPU-hour with a minimum of 2 DPUs and 1-minute billing increment. Anomaly detection adds 1 DPU per monitored statistic. Use Data Quality to define and enforce data quality rules, detect anomalies, and ensure data reliability across your data pipelines.

AWS Glue is serverless with simple DPU-hour pricing ($0.44/DPU-hour), requiring no cluster management. Amazon EMR requires managing EC2 instances but can be more cost-effective for long-running or large-scale workloads. Consider Glue for intermittent ETL jobs and EMR for continuous data processing. Use our Fargate vs EC2 calculator for similar compute trade-off analysis.