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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.
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- Security controls (65)9.393%
- Monitoring tools (64)9.191%
- Dynamic scaling (64)9.191%
- Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime (63)8.888%
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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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Amazon Web Services Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
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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October 27, 2015
AWS is a great product and well documented.
Amazon Web Services is being used by the Software Development department. We use S3 to host videos and thumbnail images for a particular web application. In the past we've used EC3 to host a Node.js server and RDS services to host a MySQL database.
- I've found AWS easy to setup.
- I found it easy to upload videos and images to S3 using their GUI.
- It was also easy to setup security permission on S3 so only a single site could access our videos.
- When connecting up EC2 and RDS it was a bit difficult, but that was a few years ago so the process may have improved. I think Elastic Beanstalk addresses this issue.
April 29, 2015
AWS is awesome. Love working with it.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- AWS provides a very easy way of "pay-as-you-go" for every service they provide. That makes it easy for any company to scale up and down as the business dictates.
- AWS provides services that inter-operate with each other very well making it them very valuable, like s3 storage being used by hadoop-elastic mapreduce, or being able to notify by email service that a load is done, etc..
- AWS fees are clear and easy to estimate, absolutely nothing is hidden
- A lot of functionality is still accessible only with a CLI, they can be exposed to the UI/console
January 23, 2015
AWS: well rounded cloud solution.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
SenseAgility uses a 100% cloud based infrastructure based completely within Amazon AWS. From test environments to corporate email, we were able to find solutions for everything within this offerings package.
- Broad range of offerings
- Pay by use
- No required contracts
- RAM is expensive!
- Anything outside of T, C, or M class is expensive.
- Security groups are not as granular as a real firewall.
- Promotes unsafe practices of universal ssh keys.
November 26, 2014
AWS - a solid platform for building cloud solutions
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
AWS is the platform that we use to deliver secure, highly-available solutions in the cloud. We deploy it for the entire company, as well as for our clients.
- High-availability; AWS has an amazing capacity for spinning up resources across multiple zones, territories and services.
- Auto-scaling; This requires some expertise, but a solution with proper architecture can support a virtually infinite user base.
- Security and compliance, but this takes some expertise and understanding
- Billing support - Bills are verbose, but difficult to allocate across different projects or software stacks without creating (and then verifying) multiple billing accounts
- Ease of use: documentation and community are powerful and large, but there is a learning curve to be able to leverage the full power of AWS.
- Solutions - AWS is still very much infrastructure building blocks. Launching a solution, say scalable SharePoint in the cloud, is not in the AWS repertoire.
We create web based software and we always use Amazon as our primary hosting solution. We deploy to EC2 either using Beanstalk or setting up instances ourselves, host databases on RDB, all our DNS are on Route 53, balance load through AWS balancers, all content on S3, for security seasons for a few clients we used AWS VPC with VPN connection.
- If you use Route 53 your DNS records can be updated almost instantly
- EC2 gives you enough control over your instances without any hassle
- RDB does backups for your data so you don't have to worry about database crashes and losing your data at all
- Beanstalk allows you to deploy apps to AWS and it scales your apps for you. Amazing!
- I have a number of AWS accounts and it would be cool if I could switch between them without logging out and logging in.
July 23, 2013
Amazon Web Services (EC2)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- EC2 makes it very quick and efficient to launch specific "builds" of your virtual machine image, if configured.
- EC2 makes it very easy to find off the shelf "builds" of specific applications and services that might meet the needs of the company.
- EC2 makes it very easy to understand the status and health of your virtual machines with just a few clicks.
- While the documentation is robust it is sometimes difficult to get access to an actual person who might be able to help with the design of your application and what Amazon service is most applicable.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Scalability- Can expand from a few servers to hundreds or thousands quickly, and without long term commitments.
- Pay as you go- If you need 10,000 servers to crunch through a problem overnight, AWS is the way to do it.
- Variety of services- from basic computing with EC2, to specialized database, storage, and routing platforms AWS is designed to work well together and provide a full feature set to both growing startups and mature organizations.
- Amazon will nickel and dime you to a great degree-- their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform charges not only for server run time, but for I/O, bandwidth (none is included in the per hour fee), storage, IP addresses, etc. While most of this is expected, the bill at the end of the month is sometimes a rather unpleasant surprise.
- While I'll admit I'm not a developer, the platform can be unforgiving to those not used to an enterprise server environment (pretty easy to accidentally delete mission-critical data)