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Amazon Web Services
AWS is a very scalable Platform as a Service (PaaS) -- making it usefull for all sizes. With AWS the failover model can be complicated in terms of selecting the right option for you. Failover within a distribution center is one level, while zone level fail over is a larger one. Be sure to understand your capability needs and discuss with AWS these different choices.

Verified User
Consultant in Engineering
Utilities Company, 5001-10,000 employeesCloudFoundry
It's well suited if:
- The organization has large number of applications that needs to be deployed frequently.
- The organization is tied to the DevOps mindset.
- The organization has programs in different languages.
- The applications does not need EJB's support that servers like web logic provide.
- The applications needs security configuration within the same CloudFoundry instance.
- The organization, for whatever reason does not want developers to manage the instances.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Amazon Web Services
8.3
CloudFoundry
—
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
Amazon Web Services
8.9
CloudFoundry
—
Dynamic scaling
Amazon Web Services
9.1
CloudFoundry
—
Elastic load balancing
Amazon Web Services
8.7
CloudFoundry
—
Pre-configured templates
Amazon Web Services
7.6
CloudFoundry
—
Monitoring tools
Amazon Web Services
7.5
CloudFoundry
—
Pre-defined machine images
Amazon Web Services
7.9
CloudFoundry
—
Operating system support
Amazon Web Services
7.9
CloudFoundry
—
Security controls
Amazon Web Services
8.4
CloudFoundry
—
Platform-as-a-Service
Amazon Web Services
—
CloudFoundry
9.8
Ease of building user interfaces
Amazon Web Services
—
CloudFoundry
10.0
Scalability
Amazon Web Services
—
CloudFoundry
9.0
Development environment creation
Amazon Web Services
—
CloudFoundry
10.0
Development environment replication
Amazon Web Services
—
CloudFoundry
10.0
Issue recovery
Amazon Web Services
—
CloudFoundry
10.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
Amazon Web Services
—
CloudFoundry
10.0
Pros
- Complete Failover and Disaster Recovery services which scale to your desired need
- Several service level options from dynamic storage pricing to pre-allocated
- Customer service responsiveness -- issues are resolved with a quick email or phone call rapidly

Verified User
Consultant in Engineering
Utilities Company, 5001-10,000 employees- Support for Orgs and Spaces that allow for managing users and deployables within a large organization.
- Easy deployment, deploying code is as simple as executing single line from CLI, thanks to build-packs.
- Solid and rich CLI, that allows for various operations on the instance.
- Isolated Virtual Machines called Droplets, that provide clean run time environment for the code. This used to be a problem with Weblogic and other application servers, where multiple applications are run on the same cluster and they share resources.
- SSH capability for the droplet (isolated VM's are called droplets), that allows for real time viewing of the App code while the application is running.
- Support for multiple languages, thanks to build-packs.
- Support for horizontal scaling, scaling an instance horizontally is a breeze.
- Support for configuring environment variable using the service bindings.
- Supports memory and disk space limit allocation for individual applications.
- Supports API's as well as workers (processes without endpoints)
- Supports blue-green deployment with minimal down time
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Cons
- AWS is really difficult to use if you do not have any training.
- You need to create your own backups. I cannot verify this, but a co-worker of mine stated that he did now create a back, and lost several items.
- It is very expensive for everyday use. AWS is for people that have done the research, and know exactly what they need. These instances are not toys, believe me.
IT Specialist
iQorTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees
- Does not support stateful containers and that would be a nice to have.
- Supports showing logs, but does not persist the logs anywhere. This makes relying on Cloud Foundry's logs very unreliable. The logs have to be persisted using other third party tools like Elk and Kibana.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Likelihood to Renew
Amazon Web Services9.4
Based on 10 answers
I would gladly rely on AWS for any large-scale application deployment. For prototyping and small-scale applications, a more heavily managed environment on top of the 'bare metal' virtual infrastructure, such as Heroku or Elastic Bean Stalk, is probably a more productive approach in most cases

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Anonymous
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employeesNo score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Usability
Amazon Web Services9.0
Based on 3 answers
Easy to use/learning curve. If you are new to the use of cloud storage, AWS is your entry point. If you have experience in that field, AWS is the way to go.
Analista de Sistemas
Consultor independiente de softwareComputer Software, 1-10 employees
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
Amazon Web Services9.0
Based on 1 answer
Availability is very good, with the exception of occasional spectacular outages.

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Anonymous
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employeesNo score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
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.

Verified User
Anonymous
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employeesNo answers on this topic
Support
Amazon Web Services3.0
Based on 3 answers
Neutral, no experience with either.

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Anonymous
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employeesNo score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Implementation
Amazon Web Services10.0
Based on 3 answers
The API's were very well documented and was Janova's main point of entry into the services.
Vice President Marketing and Product Management
SPIDA SoftwareInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
I selected AWS for my development environment and disaster recovery, due to the simplicity compared to other vendors.
Cloud Services
General ContractorComputer Networking, 1-10 employees
While Docker shines in providing support for volumes and stateful instances, Cloud foundry shines in providing support for deploying stateless services.Heroku shines in integrating with Git and using commits to git as hooks to trigger deployments right from the command line. But it does not provide on-premise solution that Cloud foundry provides.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Return on Investment
- Dynamic scaling has allowed us to match cost to revenue producing traffic
AWS Systems Engineer
ConcurInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
- Positive impact, since it simplifies the deployment time by a huge margin. Without cloud foundry, deploying a code needs coordination with infrastructure teams, while with cloud foundry, its a simple one line command. This reduces the deployment time from at least few hours to few minutes. Faster deployments promote faster dev cycle iterations.
- Code maintenance such as upgrading a Node or Java version is as simple as updating the build-pack. Without cloud foundry, using web logic, the specific version only supports a specific version of Java. So updating the version involves upgrading the version of web logic that needs to involve few teams. So without cloud foundry, it takes at least few days, with cloud foundry, its a matter of few mins.
- Overall, happier Developers and thats harder to quantify.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Pricing Details
Amazon Web Services
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Additional Pricing Details
—CloudFoundry
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No