Likelihood to Recommend We recommend AWS Lightsail with Plesk Ubuntu Web Admin (free) edition for launching WordPress websites. Pricing starts with 3.5$ per month and they are providing 3 months free. In order to access advanced features of Plesk, consider upgrading to paid Plesk plans that starts with 13.50$ per month (10 websites supported). Up to 40% discount is available for the first year. Anyway, even the free Plesk Web Admin version is by itself self sufficient with free SSL.
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It was very good to use in small scale projects. Considering the high end projects with many instances and multi-platform architectures, it is better to test before the application is deployed. I think few of the questions can be general - who are the system users and what size is the application focussing on? How much resources are required? Will the application require any additional services?
Read full review Pros Starting an instance and accessing it for testing purpose, demo or production deployment its always easy. All the things which are available over AWS are pretty well managed and easy to use. You might find everything you required for an product and other development over AWS. Its suitable for both either an enterprise or an startup Various resources and documentation are available in case you struck somewhere. Read full review Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog. Read full review Cons If there is one thing I think AWS needs improvement on, it is the administration dashboard. It can be a nightmare to use especially when trying to access billing. This could be made better, honestly, as there should be a simplified way to access simple admin features. While AWS was fairly easy to integrate into our solutions, it is not as easy to use without some IT knowledge. The dashboards are complicated and designed for someone who is computer savvy. If you are just want to keep track of billing, for example, you may need to take a course or spend a few hours with someone being walked through the admin console. AWS does tend to be slow at times. If you do not have a fast internet connection, it can take time to access services that are hosted on AWS. This is not always the case but we have had clients complain about this if they are trying to access a service from multiple points (IP addresses). The only real fix we found was to make our files cache to another server and only keep current data accessible to clients. Read full review Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools. It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility. Read full review Likelihood to Renew We are almost entirely satisfied with the service. In order to move off it, we'd have to build for ourselves many of the services that AWS provides and the cost would be prohibitive. Although there are cost savings and security benefits to returning to the colo facility, we could never afford to do it, and we'd hate to give up the innovation and constant cycle of new features that AWS gives us.
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Usability Our cloud platform architecture was designed in order to collect, analyze, and optimize modern networks, from AWS-powered computing, networking, storage, and more. So, we needed a reliable, scalable, and secure global computing infrastructure. Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing were key features in our evaluation and later on for scalability and high performance. We being a cybersecurity company, we needed to ensure that our cloud provider utilizes an end-to-end approach to secure and harden the infrastructure, including physical, operational, and software measures - which AWS had all in place.
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Reliability and Availability Availability is very good, with the exception of occasional spectacular outages.
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Performance AWS does not provide the raw performance that you can get by building your own custom infrastructure. However, it is often the case that the benefits of specialized, high-performance hardware do not necessarily outweigh the significant extra cost and risk. Performance as perceived by the user is very different from raw throughput.
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Support Rating The customer support of Amazon Web Services are quick in their responses. I appreciate its entire team, which works amazingly, and provides professional support. AWS is a great tool, indeed, to provide customers a suitable way to immediately search for their compatible software's and also to guide them in a good direction. Moreover, this product is a good suggestion for every type of company because of its affordability and ease of use.
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Implementation Rating The API's were very well documented and was Janova's main point of entry into the services.
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Alternatives Considered Amazon Web Services is well suited when we have a huge amount of data to store, process, manipulate and get meaningful information out of. It is also suitable when we need very fast data retrieval from the database. They provide a superior product at a fair price which allows us to further our goals and push the limits of what we are capable of as a team / company.
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Primarily because it used to have a good free tier earlier, which it does not anymore. It's simple, and things are available to use. Compared to it's competitors, it does has less features, but that kind of acts in its favor. That adds to the simplicity, and ease of use for a new user.
Read full review Return on Investment AWS has lowered our employee cost, because you don't have to hire Network/Server Admins to manage infrastructure. Increased productivity by incorporating Continuous Integration with AWS and our development life cycle. Increased customer confidence by being able to provide HIPAA level security in our development and production environments Read full review Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible. The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers. Read full review ScreenShots