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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing services. With over 165 services offered, AWS services can provide users with a comprehensive suite of infrastructure and computing building blocks and tools.
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What is Amazon Web Services?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing services. With over 165 services offered, AWS services can provide users with a comprehensive suite of infrastructure and computing building blocks and tools. According to Amazon, AWS is suitable for organizations of any size, and helps to efficiently power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. AWS is also known for its service coverage, with over 69 Availability Zones across the world, allowing for users to experience lower latency and prevent their data centers from failing, which is important for cloud computing services.
AWS product range covers, but is not necessarily limited to, the following categories:
Analytics
Application Integration
AR & VR
AWS Cost Management
Blockchain
Business Applications
Compute
Customer Engagement
Database
Developer Tools
End User Computing
Game Tech
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Management & Governance
Media Services
Migration & Transfer
Mobile
Networking & Content Delivery
Robotics
Satellite
Security, Identity, & Compliance
Storage
Pricing varies greatly across their vast scope of products, but AWS does provide an “AWS Free Tier” offering of services. Depending on the product, users can use the product for free indefinitely, a year, or in shorter-term trials.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing services. With over 165 services offered, AWS services can provide users with a comprehensive suite of infrastructure and computing building blocks and tools.
Amazon Web Services starts at $100.
DXC Managed Cloud Services, 9STAR EasyIdentity Cloud, and 9STAR Elastic SSO are common alternatives for Amazon Web Services.
Reviewers rate Elastic load balancing and Security controls highest, with a score of 9.3.
The most common users of Amazon Web Services are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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September 01, 2023
AWS Lightsail: Highly recommended for launching WordPress websites
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
For launching in-house and clients' websites, we are using Amazon Lightsail (Plesk Ubuntu instance). Needless to say there is never an issue with AWS hosting. This is cost-effective as well since with each instance of Amazon Lightsail Plesk Ubuntu instance, 3 websites can be launched. There is a free version of Plesk Ubuntu (Web Admin edition) that we are using. This means we only need to pay AWS Lightsail hosting fee which starts with 3.5$ per month.
- Launching WordPress websites with Amazon Lightsail
- AWS Activate that provides host of credits for startups
- More plugins expected from AWS for WordPress website users. For instance, earlier there used to be Amazon Polly plugin that would seamlessly convert all blogposts into audio. The same plugin is no more supported.
February 09, 2023
What can AWS do for you
EC2 instances were used and Amazon web services were used for virtual training environments, as well as a bridge between servers and devices during calls. AWS never failed to meet our requirements and have everything we needed to grow the business.
- Virtual server
- Cloud solutions
- Data storage
- Customer service
- Platform sharing
November 29, 2021
Do NOT use AWS
Score 1 out of 10
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Verified User
Domain registration for my small business. AWS system, processes, and staff cause me to lose money and they did not take responsibility for their actions. They froze my account over an outstanding $2 payment. The circumstances are ridiculous, and I want to share them. So I called up the billing support about the failed $2 charge and updated my credit card and the support staff said everything was fixed. Then a month later they shut down my account over said payment. It was not put through and didn’t get a call or anything. Just boom woke up and my domain was down and I was looking for money.
- Nothing
- No free technical support.
- Lock business domains over $2.
- Hard to use system.
Score 1 out of 10
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Verified User
We have a SaaS application we host out of Singapore on behalf of one client, support multiple other companies with hosted web services and use some of the AWS services for internal processes.
- Provides clear links to access support
- Responding to support requests
- Resolving support requests
- Escalating support requests
- Allowing access to a complaints process
- Reviewing support processes to detect issues
- Providing managerial or even supervisory oversight of their support teams
June 25, 2021
Amazon Web Services - a platform for deployment.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Amazon Web Services is mostly used by our organization for cloud computing, for their storage, IoT platform, and for their complex API.
These services help organizations to move faster and the cost of these services is quite less that also lets us learn many new algorithms and modern ways which are needed to work with them.
These services help organizations to move faster and the cost of these services is quite less that also lets us learn many new algorithms and modern ways which are needed to work with them.
- Easy to use and manage
- Detailed documentation for every service and tool
- Robust and fast
- Real time support
- It really becomes hard sometimes to choose configurations for a server which would be suitable for your pocket and project.
- You need to be experienced to use Amazon Web Services at it's fullest.
- Billing is a little bit confusing.
April 15, 2021
AWS best to go service anytime.
We are using Amazon Web Services in various of our internal tools and also in our product. We deployed our API server over EC2. Other than EC2 we are using many other services like RDS, Load balancers, Firewall, S3, Route 53 and many other services for our different products and tools.
- 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.
- Amazon market place is great but its not that straight forward to subscribe then activate it in your instance. Example Openvpn.
- Sometimes its really hard to choose the correct configuration which is suitable for your product as well pocket.
- You need to be experienced if you want to use AWS effectively and efficiently
July 18, 2020
Startups, go for it
We have used Amazon Web Services for the web hosting of www.getbeyondlimits.com for many years. All our data gets backed on Amazon Web Services. Amazon Web Services seems to be quite dynamic in its functionality. You have so many plans to choose from. The best part is that you only pay for what you use. Ideally, if more people visit your website, you pay more and that is good for business.
- Dynamic pricing
- Push load time is less
- Easy to use
- S3 can be made easier for use.
- The pricing, though dynamic, still gets high at times.
- At times, downtime happens as well.
January 30, 2020
I've been overcharged for over a year... and I'm surprised to find that AWS isn't helping to make things right.
Score 3 out of 10
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Verified User
We're using AWS primarily for web hosting.
- The technology is great. I've never had technical issues.
- They have been incredibly slow to respond to a billing dispute. Over a year ago, we erroneously signed up for a service that we never used. It was a total 'gotcha,' and it added $800/mo to our monthly invoices. Shortly thereafter we noticed the huge credit card bill and asked them to remove the service. We're a small education company, and we're spread pretty thin- and I'm embarrassed to admit that when I asked them to turn it off, I naively believed that they would do so. When we noticed last month that they were still auto-billing us $800/mo for the entire past year, we were stunned. I again asked for them to honor our original, well-documented request, and this time we asked them to help make things right for us. We've corresponded 2-3 times/week over the last 30 days and I still can't get a response from their Finance department. I'm surprised and disappointed - I was expecting AWS to be much more responsive and helpful than this. I still trust that they'll make things right - but as of now they're still billing us for this.
January 15, 2020
My AWS experience
Amazon Web Services offers a comprehensive range of cloud services, which we can utilise at a cost-effective price as well as offering the flexibility and scalability to fast-track deployment of server and storage infrastructure for our clients. We are also able to set up test / Dev environments for testing applications quickly as well as setting up secure cloud disaster recovery (DR) sites with minimal costs.
- Innovation. Since AWS is a world leader, we are able to benefit from running on the latest technologies being deployed using best practices and industry standards that typically comes standard from these leading cloud service providers.
- Scalability. There is basically no limitation in expanding system resources when using AWS. The advantage of this is that we can increase resources for business systems and projects at a click of a button.
- Implementation. Migrating to AWS is somewhat complex and adequate training is required. However, this can be mitigated using an accredited AWS provider.
- Support Costs. AWS has various support options which includes Developer, Business and Enterprise support. Depending on the business requirement, the support costs can increase significantly since the basic support option may not meet the requirement of certain businesses.
November 07, 2019
AWS delivers the solid, stellar performance you would expect it to
We use Amazon Web Services as the backbone of our software-as-a-service product. We use it to host media files for streaming, downloading, etc with our client app. Our product involves a wide range of media files: images, audio files, video files, documents, etc and some of them are quite large, so we store it all using AWS.
- The interface is pretty easy to use.
- It's very reliable and there almost never seems to be an interruption in service.
- It's pretty pervasive so when working with other companies, partners, etc, it is a piece of technology that nearly everyone is familiar with.
- Occasionally I've had issues uploading many files at once, and have to resort to one-at-a-time to ensure successful upload. Not often, but it's happened.
Both within our organization and for clients, we implement several different Amazon Web Services. We mostly make use of EC2 for hosting private cloud servers/applications, Simple Storage Service (S3) for hosting data in the cloud, both for active use and backup, and S3 Glacier for archiving low-touch data to the cloud. All of these AWS services allow us to provide on-demand, infinitely expandable cloud services as needed.
- 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.
- 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.
We use AWS as the infrastructure provider for our entire global operations. From DNS down to database systems, we are using services powered by AWS.
- Automated server provisioning.
- Load balancing.
- Hassle-free OS updates.
- Hard to get support (even you pay extra for paid support services).
- Expensive compared to the competition.
- Regional outages may occur.
Our goal as a company is to ensure that our services are efficient and fast to load. After years of using traditional web hosts, we finally made the switch to Amazon Web Services and we have not looked back. Our biggest issues with traditional web hosting was the inability to store large amounts of data and the lack of scalability for our different applications. AWS allows us to run our services more efficiently and without absorbing the high cost of owning servers. For our business it's really about solving 3 problems:
- Scaling - The solution should be able to allow us to scale effectively without the hassles of setting up new servers.
- Cost effective - The solution should allow us to manage our costs effectively so that none of our clients have to pay more for our services.
- Integration - The solution should integrate well into our development teams coding and not slow them down.
- AWS (Amazon Web Services) is not the easiest virtual service to set up but once you get the hang of it, it's fairly easy to install new instances (servers) and stop them. This is good for multiple reasons e.g we run multiple tests and live production servers for our different services. When we are done with one we can easily turn it off. The cost of the specifications on our virtual servers is only a fraction of the cost of what we would get locally or even on most traditional web services companies.
- Amazon Web Services can be relatively cost efficient depending on where you are coming from. For our smaller organization, we felt the cost was worth it as other alternatives were not as affordable. The good thing with AWS is you only pay for what you use. If you want S3 (Simple Storage Service), you can pay for that. If you want to run a compute engine, EC2 can be paid for. At the end of the month, you get one bill based on your usage.
- Because of our size as a company, AWS was easier to deploy compared to local dedicated solutions. All we had to do was take our development team through a simple 2-day course to get them on board. The ease of deployment means that we do not have to hire a specialist to deploy servers for us.
- 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.
December 07, 2018
AWS has changed our business in a multitude of ways.
AWS has completely changed our business, 1000%. We used to be tied to a server located in our office. Access was limited and we were constantly crashing, due to software updates or other items. AWS holds our entire database, which includes over 25 years worth of data. While not a direct reason, because we made the switch to AWS, we have been able to move to a smaller office space because we are not longer dependent on a space that includes a server closet. We've saved a considerable amount of money since the switch because we are no longer calling a developer to come in in an emergency situation to fix our server.
- Data Storage
- Affordability
- Easy to use
- Because we have a large amount of data, constantly uploading and downloading, our monthly fee isn't a set amount, but instead fluctuates up and down each month.
AWS is used because it was an easy-to-deploy infrastructure solution for our core applications as well as any future applications. It is easy to provision different resources, connect those resources, and provide a security to them relatively easily. It addresses the issue of spinning up a quick infrastructure with a customized configuration and still keep early costs very low.
- Launching a VIrtual Machine quickly, especially from AMI images from verified providers.
- Launching RDS instances, configuring and managing parameters
- Managing monthly costs and budget
- Some resources parameters needed and prerequisites are difficult to understand, even with services that have well-known solutions that are easy to understand. For example, IAM and SSO solutions are more complicated and confusing than other services.
- Generally, the User Experience is lacking WITHIN services is poor compared to other comparable platforms, however high-level access to the many services in AWS is good - as compared to other platforms.
- Some services seem fragmented - as interrelated functions withing services don't seem to provide detail weel without some work. The billing area is an example of where getting and reviewing information is difficult.
September 19, 2018
AWS Can't Be Beat for What We All Really Need: Great Service!
AWS is Infrastructure As A Service for us so we can focus on what our core strengths are. We started with AWS 8 years ago for one of our Strategic Business Units and honestly waited for other competitors to meet or exceed what we received in services from AWS. While we did shop around, early on, largely for pricing reasons as our consumption increased across our entire organization. Then Bezos did what he's best at: he responded to market demand with even more elasticity, even greater service levels (for which he is known to be maniacal) and after all of our shopping around, we made a proactive decision to stay!
- Customer service: There's no beating AWS for their customer service. They've clearly been trained to lisetn to understand the core issue you've called them for. Our customers satisfaction is in direct correlation to what AWS can deliver, so this is the #1 reason we chose and have stayed with AWS for 8 years.
- Agility: We have demand cycles that fluctuate, largely without alot of notice. It doesn't take more than 1 phone call to address any increase in bandwidth. In fact, they're more likely to reach out to us with any enhancements we might need or shoul be considering.
- Performance: We've never experienced a slowdown, nor failure - even when there've been internet-wide issues. They're always innovating based on every customer, and we all benefit from Bezos vision of what infrastructure technology should do for business.
- It's such a well conceived service, I can't think of anything that's missing in functionality for our HC company. What we ask of AWS is to be so reliable, so customer-focused and so fast that we can just do what we do best, and forget about their job in our success.
- Healthcare: Since this is our core market, we're very interested in watching this vertical evolve and Amazon's vision for it. We'd value more insights and collaboration with Bezos on what our vision is too.
January 09, 2018
Cloud Solutions at a glance: AWS
Amazon Web Services allows me to create a virtual machine running Linux so that security, availability, elasticity, reliability, and cost factors are all accounted for. Information Assurance is of top priority, including claims-based authentication, single sign-on, MEAN stack, and secure SSH access with public and private PKI infrastructure to leverage AAA best practices.
- Cost: AWS's free tier enables developers to try out the service with no commitment. The resiliency of the AWS infrastructure is a great value-add.
- Ubiquity: AWS networks have the availability and elasticity which not only meet the needs of developers, but also end users.
- AWS is an E2E solution for deploying, managing, and continuously integrating software development.
- AWS needs to improve their java-based browser SSH client. Both Azure and Google Cloud Platform far exceed AWS in this regard.
- AWS lacks the ability to SSH from windows at this time without extensive modifications to the operating system.
- AWS needs a trial period to demo paid features within a free tier window, not locked out of premium services.
April 27, 2016
Scale your business with AWS
We are using AWS S3 for image storage, SNS for push notifications and SQS for background jobs. It is used in the engineering department only. We use S3 for all of our images on our website and iOS applications, SNS for iOS push notification management, and SNS for background jobs for timed mailers.
- Checking for enabled device tokens on SNS
- Uploading images on S3 - easy to use
- Setting up background jobs with SQS - easy setup
- Resizing images upon upload - should be a built-in feature
- Automatically making images public by default
- Disconnect between SNS and Apple - constantly disabling device tokens
April 15, 2016
AWS for all your needs
I am an independent consultant. As such, I provide software solutions and consulting services to customers with different needs. AWS gives me the tools to cover much of their needs, so it is for me a key tool in the performance of my activities, specifically as application server, databases and files through IaaS go.
- Performance, Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) allows you to host your resources without worrying about high consumption peaks.
- Easy to use. The learning curve for its main functions is relatively easy and well documented.
- Price. The price is very competitive in the market.
- Variety of tools at your disposal.
- Account management. If you manage many accounts AWS, management can become somewhat disorganized, as AWS does not offer many tools for internal control.
- It has many tools at your disposal, but you may not know them all. They could see how to promote and introduce the tools that you use less to display its advantages.
- It could extend free trial accounts indefinitely in exchange for advertising or something like that. Some users complain when the free trial ends and charge them without notice.
March 01, 2016
Global reach and scale at bargain prices
We use Amazon Web Services (AWS) throughout the organization as the delivery mechanism for our Software-as-a-Service product. It hosts our web server, databases, web services, transcoding, and storage for the entire delivery and allows us to leverage the global edge servers for content delivery to our users around the world. It is the platform for our entire product.
- Consistently available, one small hiccup in 3 years.
- Globally available. Our customers in Africa and the Australian Outback have extremely limited bandwidth and high latency. The global edge servers help with that.
- Instantly scalable. We go from a small handful of users to thousands in an instant, serving live streaming video across the globe sourced in different countries.
- Transcoding expenses (separate but related AWS product) are a tad expensive.
February 25, 2016
Beginners view on AWS
It is being used by a department and were used for cloud based resources.
- Provides cloud resources
- Free resources for POC
- Good security measure
- S3 library for java in particular. (Could use some improvements)
- KMS can be made a bit more easy to use
February 11, 2016
AWS usually does the trick
We keep our clients' server instances running on AWS so they can expand their business easily.
- Helps manage marketplace
- Expands easily
- Stores data affordably
- Can be overly complicated
February 10, 2016
Amazon hasn't let me down
I personally use Amazon Web Services, primarily for database storage. A lot of the services are free or cheap. I feel as if my data is secure and trust that Amazon Web Services isn't trying to make a huge profit off of me as much as they are trying to provide a service.
- Secure
- Easy to understand interface
- Cheap prices
- Initial set-up takes a long time
- Options can be overwhelming
November 06, 2015
AWS infrastructure with respect to HIPAA
Amazon Web Services houses and helps us manage our development and production level services. Amazon Web Services helps us run production level equipment without having to mange the infrastructure ourselves. We are able to leverage Amazon Web Services in our development and integration life cycles to minimize the cost of equipment and employees, because we don't have to manage the physical hardware. The virtual infrastructure that we set up also allows us to to provide HIPAA level security to our clients.
- The ability to scale vertically and horizontally easily.
- The ability to get server notifications
- Ease of use within the AWS GUI
- Better user support would be nice. It seems hard to find help when you need something specific from an Amazon employee.
- Even though the prices are set up for enterprise they do seem high for small to mid level businesses, compared to other alternatives.
- It would be nice to be able to have some type of DB security built in to the EC2s or as a default.
October 28, 2015
AWS automated my development and deployment processes of highly available applications
We are using Amazon Web Services in all our new web applications and we are moving all the projects in the company. Amazon Web Service has allowed to automate the infrastructure of our projects, increase the speed of the development, and scale our software easily with reduced down time. Amazon Web Services is fundamental in our array of infrastructure solutions, since we host the applications, backups, static files and databases thinking always as architecture of services. We integrate perfectly our development instances, with a repository, that is connected to Amazon Web Services in order to provide continuous integration and delivery by running automated testings and deploy it to the Amazon Web Services cloud in minutes automatically.
- Architecture of services
- Scalability of application
- Mulitple zones of availability
- Improvements in the usability of the dashboard. Initially it can be overwhelming.
- IAM users and roles configurations are complex to configure and understand.
- Misses predefined architectures of common applications.