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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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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 |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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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January 31, 2018
Amazon Web Services -- Easy to setup, difficult to manage
Before my company changed hands, my department underwent training for AWS. If you are going to use AWS, I highly recommend taking the training on CBTNuggets, otherwise you will be lost. The feature that I have used is S3 storage. It is ridiculously easy to use, and very affordable.
- Scales cloud services to meet the user's needs, in a nutshell you only pay for what you use.
- Amazon SES is perfect for sending bulk emails, and integrates with applications already in use.
- S3 storage is the most reliable cloud storage that I have used, and it is also used by several big name websites.
- 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.
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.
August 16, 2017
AWS is the industry leader
Score 8 out of 10
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Being used as end-to-end platform to deliver services to customers. Using both IaaS and PaaS products. Deploying infrastructure as code across multiple regions.
- Extremely rich and robust API's that simplify automation
- Broad range of managed services so there is no need to build everything from scratch
- Available in many regions making it possible to deliver services locally to meet compliance requirements.
- Standardize service availability across all regions. Not all services are available everywhere.
- Service limits can be difficult to manage
- Isolating teams within a shared account is almost impossible due to inconsistent security policies/features.
February 22, 2017
AWS for the win!
Amazon Web Services is only used by the video, production and tech teams at my company. We are a non-denominational mega church with 5 campuses and we use AWS S3 to upload and manage the MP3 recordings of the message from our weekend services. I have been with this organization for over 4 years and this is one of the few weekly tasks I do that has not changed.
- I love how clean the S3 interface is as well as being well laid out and easy to organize. It's simple and effective and allows me to do my post-weekend tasks easily and quickly. I'm a nerd for organization and this software hits the spot! I honestly don't have more to comment because it's not complicated, just a few clicks and violá!
- I'm afraid you're going to have to go somewhere else for improvement suggestions because I have none!
December 23, 2016
My personal experience working with AWS
Currently, I use AWS for different applications based on client requirements. I work with digital marketing mobile applications using open-source technologies. Namely Apache, PHP and MySQL. Using AWS to create an instant infrastructure from ground-up allows faster innovation in bringing different solutions to the market. AWS’s pay-as-you-go model allows for a lower upfront investment.
- Technical information availability.
- Open source.
- A lot of business cases coming from different vertical customers.
- Integration with enterprise private cloud
- Support Services.
- Training cost.
Amazon Web Services is being used cross the whole organization. We have VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) on AWS and send data via Kinesis. And we provide the solution to customers via a web server in VPC.
- Easy to manage through Amazon Management Console.
- Separate secure (virtual) service on cloud.
- So far it has the most used cloud solution. Easily get example or feedback from other users.
- There is a Kinesis API in Java and C# versions. But the C++ version needs to built on Linux, which is a tedious job.
- Still, as most used cloud solution, there is a lack of examples or useful code on using AWS.
April 29, 2016
Amazon built for tomorrow's needs
It is being used to support clients who are using Amazon Web service. Lot of clients are comfortable on the cloud, including financial institutions. We have been largely been using it for our marketing clients' requirements. It has been very convenient to scale and provide the solutions which are meeting today's market demands. Not sure how the world ran without AWS.
- Ability to scale up and down to meet our global clients' seasonal demands
- Is secure and gives the confidence to have an infrastructure that is dependable
- Ability to cover all geographies is something that goes down really well with our clients. The types of services that meets all clients demands is also something that makes AWS an easy choice
- Console access for instances
- Would like to see AWS presence in all countries. At times for my global clients it has been a struggle to find alternate partners like Datapipe
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 14, 2016
Cost effective web services
We are using AWS S3 and EC2 to host our customer's campaign website, public videos clips, content management system etc. S3 is really easy to setup and we don't need to put a lot of effort to maintain it; the bandwidth is virtually unlimited and it is very helpful for video download. The availability is great, so we don't need to worry about server or storage failure. Scale up the server in just a few clicks.
- S3 -> Virtually unlimited bandwidth, works well with Edge servers (CDN), super easy to setup
- E2C -> Again, easy to setup and maintain
- No datacenter in Hong Kong
- Weak in Enterprise services (SLA)
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 30, 2015
AWS is powerful, flexible and infinitely scalable platform
Amazon Web Services is an extremely powerful, yet flexible platform for developing applications. We primarily use it to quickly and cost-effectively establish application infrastructure to support our mobile apps.
- Provides Options: there are so many services and modules available that you can choose from depending on the degree of control that you need or sys admin expertise that you have.
- Provides Scalability: it's very easy to get up and running and to do so in a cost-effective manner, but when your application needs to scale, Amazon Web Services can do so and a price that makes sense for your needs rather than a flat rate for services you don't use.
- Provides Management: the degree to which, and ease with which, you can manage users and permissions is extremely vast (and sometimes even a bit overwhelming)
- The UI and usability of the administration tool could stand to be improved. Similarly, I think the documentation, while substantial, is not always as clear as it could be. It would be nice to see examples and/or tutorials improved.
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.
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
Vetted Review
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
April 08, 2015
Amazon Web Services
IT at Qualbe uses Amazon Web Services to do software development, perform testing and for production infrastructure supporting web servers, DNS and database applications.
- Database Services
- Virtualization of Windows and Linux instances
- CloudWatch alarms are dropped when an instance is terminated and regenerated from an AMI. There is no way to transfer CloudWatch alarms.
- Tag retention. There is no way to retain a set of tags so they can be applied to a new EC2. They die with the previous EC2.
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.
August 23, 2014
AWS - This is where your cloud journey begins
We are using AWS stack as multi geography, multi cluster infrastructure to run data and compute cloud. We are using EC2, S3, SNS, SQS, ELB and Route53 as a part of our major architectural components. This infrastructure is connected via continuous integration/delivery pipeline to leverage fast, focused and frequent feature deployments.
- Intuitive and easy to use
- Fast ramp up for beginners
- Command Line Interface (CLI) support
- Still lacks openness
- Data Sovereignty
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.
May 17, 2014
AWS fits like a glove
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
As the organization transitions from an in-house to SaaS model AWS was procured for hosting certain capabilities. This early-stage effort has signaled the validity of the transition model for future applications. Results have reduced inhouse IT expenditures and provided a simplified enterprise connectivity architecture through interface standards and high-performance bus speeds.
- 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
- Service Availability has been ok, yet a couple large outages brought down the service for "too long"
- Service Availability is worse than some competitors based on known metrics