Amazon Web Services vs OpenShift

• Easy to deploy. It's trivial to create a new S3 bucket, or spin up a new EC2 VM.
• AWS console is relatively easy to navigate/administrate services. It used to not be the case, but it has improved quite a bit over the years.
• Cost Explorer service makes it somewhat easier to plan/budget and track/manage AWS cost.
• Tons of software, services, etc that integrate directly with AWS services -- example, CloudBerry Backup that integrates with S3, Glacier, etc.

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• Pre built cartridges, giving a huge range of software ready to go. Reduces the amount of time required to get up and running.
• Integration with GIT was an advantage, cloning the repo and making changes was straight forward.
• Speed, creating an environment in minutes, ready to deploy.

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• Cost - Because of the many variables involved in AWS pricing, it can be difficult to budget for AWS costs. For small deployments, this isn't too big of a problem, but when you start using multiple AWS services, even with Cost Explorer, planning can be time-consuming.
• Some of the terminologies are unnecessary. Too much input from marketing types. They should just say what the service does and note waste time with cutesy names.
• On the flip side of the thriving AWS ecosystem, the lack of Amazon-created apps to interface with their services is a bit of a bummer. Sometimes you just want a good, documented, first-party backup app, for example.

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• Swapping between different Openshift accounts wasn't as intuitive as I would have imagined, although I doubt that the tool is primarily aimed towards front end developers.

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• Profitability: We've a team of very hands-on engineers and what they would need to build what we now get from AWS, would not have had the level of profitability we get with AWS. At first, our inhouse team really wanted this work inhouse. Now, they're very grateful it's not. Billing is always accurate and automated with full justification in every report. We can plan our growth far more accurately.
• Flexibility: We can onboard new customers in an instant. We can give greater service levels to our current customers, just as quickly and dynamically too, if their needs change.
• Ease of use: seriously, one or two phone calls is pretty much all we've ever had to make when our needs change and it's been that easy for the last 4 or 5 years now.

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• Cost Saving (Used Open Source) version
• Easy to implement and manage

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