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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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December 13, 2021
AWS world is great to explore!!
Amazon Web services solved so many business problems of our banking project, especially it helped us to integrate with different third-party tools and deployment of our applications, apart from this we have done a proof of concept on machine learning model where we have used AWS for deploying ML models, I would it is really hassle-free and added great value for our product.
- Security, Scaling
- Deployment
- Integration
- Compliance
- Billing part can be improved
- Training on this technology
- No free technical support, if there are some tech videos for frequently faced problems. It would help
July 30, 2021
Best experience on the cloud with AWS
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Our team is using Amazon Web Services as a cloud based service for various projects. We have deployed many Java and J2EE based applications on the Amazon EC2 instances. AWS vast variety of tools have helped us in seamless integration and deployment for our applications.
- Wide range of services/tools available on a single platform
- Fast and reliable cloud services
- Rock solid security for your applications and deployments
- High availability across multiple locations around the world
- Regular updates and improvements in the tools and services offered
- Some tools like CloudFront and SES need improvement
- Extensive training is required to work with different tools of AWS
- Costing for some services is high
July 30, 2021
AI ML Apps with Amazon Web Services
We are using Amazon Web Services to develop and deploy machine learning applications on the cloud. We have used AWS like Comprehend and SageMaker to build deep learning models. Also, we have used other services like Lambda for server-less functions.
- Excellent training material and documentation available for each tool and service of Amazon Web Services.
- Large user community and support available online.
- Scalable as per the demand and requirement.
- Management of services used is very easy from the centralized dashboard.
- Some tools have very complex UI to use.
- Costing for certain tools and services is bit on the higher side.
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.
May 10, 2021
Welcome to Cloud City
We use Amazon Web Services as our primary compute platform. We run our primary applications and run our business from the Amazon cloud. As an IT professional, AWS cuts out the busy work of IT. AWS lets me focus on the needs to the business and not the needs of datacenter hardware. We're able to deploy new systems within minutes without needing to worry about having enough server capacity.
- The platform is extremely agile, we will typically get a new server request fulfilled within minutes
- AWS hardware is reliable, we don't worry about the on premise data center environment.
- They have tools and services that allow you to create anything you need.
- AWS can be overwhelming with the vast amount of services they provide. It can be tough to pick the right option to fit the goal you're trying to accomplish
- There is some reliance on your own skills to create tools\functionally that isn't native. Like scheduling backups.
- There is a steep learning curve to the platform.
April 13, 2021
AWS Review
Amazon Web Services is used by our infrastructure team to host and support various technologies within the company. The information technology department implements AWS to help support a variety of different issues and programs and allows us to maintain an effective and efficient service so that our business can perform as needed and allows us to better support our end-users.
- Reliable Service
- Fast and efficient configurations
- Learning curve when training new hires
April 08, 2021
Set and forget cloud services
We use AWS for our website content distribution network (CDN) as well as hosting files for desktop support management (software updates for example). We use it whenever possible across a number of departments and needs. It helps us provide IT support to our global workforce without needing an on-premises server and complicated network setup. It also makes our web hosting cost much less.
- Website CDN
- Caching server for desktop support (software installer files).
- Reliability, it has been set and forget.
- It is such a vast product that finding what you need can be a challenge.
- There is a learning curve, but once you figure it out, it's fairly simple.
We use Amazon Web Services in a number of ways across the entire organization. It addresses the need for flexibility and reactive infrastructure that you cant find in a bare metal environment. It is also great to POC a new design or product as it is very easy to spin up, scale, and evolve as needed
- scaling
- security and access management
- cost tracking
- infrastructure as code
- UI is clunky
- cost tracking is good but could be simpler or implied
Our company has exited all of its data centers and migrated the entirety of its workloads into AWS. We use it across the enterprise and it has allowed us to transform our IT operations and software development. All of our applications and associated data are running in AWS.
- AWS provides a large offering of different services that are used in deploying applications.
- The services integrate well with each other. We look to leverage AWS managed services wherever possible.
- AWS customer support is outstanding.
- The learning curve to truly get operating in AWS is not insignificant.
- It can be tough finding quality engineers that are competent working in AWS.
October 24, 2019
AWS for test and dev environment with easy chargeback facilities
We use a hybrid multi-cloud environment where we have multiple cloud vendors that include AWS, Google and Oracle (OCI). AWS (Amazon Web Services) is being used for the dev/test environment on-demand. It was earlier used for customer-facing workloads and analytics but was replaced by Google/Oracle.
- AWS has a very in-depth and descriptive dashboard that helps to chargeback easily as well as keep track of expenses.
- It is also highly reliable and scales well with workloads.
- It is very well suited for a multi-cloud set-up since it is compatible with and supports other public clouds ( Oracle, Google, Microsoft).
- AWS dashboard is complex and it needs someone with reasonable experience with Cloud deployment and maintenance to use. AWS can reduce the complexity of the AWS console to make it more user-friendly.
- AWS is also much more expensive and the license metrics are not that well aligned for extremest scale workloads.
- There is a good amount of install and deployment time using if you are using Oracle database or even Microsoft SQL Server as best practices documents for large scale deployments over AWS is not that easily available.
July 18, 2019
Serverless Saviors!
It is being used by an individual department. It provides scalability without the need to manage server infrastructure. It offers versatile services such as data warehousing, machine learning, and performance monitoring. You also have control of who accesses what feature through identity and access management, as well as audit activity through Cloud Trail. It is easy to import your data into AWS, so start-up time is quick.
- It is highly redundant.
- You can design performance capable infrastructure at up to 80% cheaper than other services.
- You can configure your routing based on latency, geo-location, weighted, etc.
- Menu to access different services is a bit muddled. It could use some streamlining.
- Interactive and informative training should be offered by Amazon, rather than third party services.
- Availability zones differ between accounts.
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.
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.
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.