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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 Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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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 04, 2022
Great for remote access desktops
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
I use AWS to access a remote desktop which I require to access Microsoft-based applications that I need for my day to day use. It was a bit complicated to set up but now that it’s up and running, it’s easy to access, efficient and perfect for my needs.
- Makes it easy to access applications that are otherwise not available on my Mac OS
- Sign in and VPN connection are quick and reliable
- Tech support was complicated to navigate for set up
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
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 15, 2021
AWS = Expensive Geek Toys
AWS serves PACE in a couple of ways. The IT Department primarily uses EC2 to host the infrastructure to our ecommerce website. We offload our onsite Veeam backups with S3 and glacier. We also host our spam filter and a remote assistance tool in AWS. AWS has provided our company a way to spin up offsite (cloud) services easily, and in a flexible enough of an environment that lends itself to the next generation of software products.
- AWS is particularly good at eating up your money if you don't budget and plan your deployment properly.
- It's like a candy shop for IT Geeks who love automation and workflows.
- You name the service you want to deploy on the cloud, chances are someone's built it for AWS.
- See the first entry on my Pros list.
- Billing can be a bit confusing, so get familiar with it!
- It's Amazon, and they have a virtual monopoly on the cloud.
I have been using Amazon Web Services for more than 3 years as of now. Its one of the best cloud computing platform, which has wide range of functionalities (services from Servers to ML, AI stuff) and the best part is all these services are provided in competitive pricing, also UI for the services is easy to understand and it has wide community following.
- Great Functionality
- Competitive pricing
- Wide community following
- Nearly 100 % uptime of most of the services
- Variety of Availability zones and regions
- Services can be sometimes having downtime
- So many newcomers have come to the category, want to learn from them as well
- Some services are associated with high cost due to low competition in the category
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
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.
May 28, 2020
One-stop solution for all your IT needs
We use Amazon Web Services as a cloud service provider for most of our IT requirements. The ease to set up and run an application on AWS has made it our go-to choice. It helps avoid the hassle of setting up and managing infrastructure and lets us focus on our application quality. We leverage S3, EC2 , Elastic BeanStalk, Lambda, CodePipeline, CloudWatch and a lot of other AWS components regularly for our application development and deployment.
- Easy to use even for beginners.
- Free tier for 1 year with access to most offerings.
- Pay only what you use model.
- Helpful & quick real-time support.
- Highly reliable and fault tolerant.
- Due to the various services provided, it can become a maze for beginners.
- If not monitored and managed carefully, huge bill can pile up.
- For larger scale applications using AWS becomes expensive, better to go for on-premise servers.
February 15, 2020
If you want to save on internal resources, Amazon Web Services might be right choice for you
We use AWS to host our mobile app data and PIM. We needed to manage CRM data when we launched our mobile app and there were a few options like on-premise or outsourced hosting. Considering the effort needed to invest in-house equipment as well as potential difficulties to maintain continuity, our choice was Amazon Web Services.
- Besides planned maintenance windows, there are no interruption to the services provided.
- Great variety of applications ready to be deployed.
- Fees could be higher than competitor.
- We experienced failure and performance issues at least once in the past years., although it is getting better through the years.
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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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 24, 2020
Build enterprise class infrastructure at a reasonable cost. AWS is a winner in my book
We use AWS for our IT infrastructure and Development platform. AWS is utilized by all departments within our organization. We have been able to improve IT infrastructure reliability and reduce costs at the same time.
- AWS provides enterprise fail over capabilities at a reasonable cost.
- It's extremely easy to scale up or down with your infrastructure.
- Better UI design and layout.
- It could get expensive if not managed correctly.
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 19, 2019
Hassle free Big data infrastructure setup. It's a dream come true.
Being part of RND team, we do data analytics at PetaByte scale. Amazon Web Services helped us to efficiently orchestrate pipeline and perform data analytics on EMR and Sage notebook. Using Cloudformation and Step functions, we can deploy the pipeline in production reliably without worrying about infrastructure. Also, Amazon Web Services support team was accommodating while setting up initial infrastructure and troubleshooting any EMR or Spark related issues.
- Cloudformation to bring up infrastructure.
- Using triggers like S3 file creation to invoke lambda automatically.
- EMR service allows the use of Big data tools seamlessly.
- Amazon Web Services team support for debugging cluster related issues.
- Handling Cloudformation stack deletion gracefully while the EMR Cluster is scaling.
- Providing free access to Amazon Web Services to graduate students.
- Educating users using blogs like https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/best-practices-for-successfully-managing-memory-for-apache-spark-applications-on-amazon-emr/.
November 11, 2019
Excellent cloud service provider
We are using Amazon as a cloud service provider. We are using Amazon across all the departments in the organization. It has all the services we need, from virtual machines to serverless. We mostly use serverless, DynamoDB, S3 and virtual machines with virtual private cloud. So far AWS was really useful. We haven't faced any issues yet.
- Serverless
- DynamoDB
- S3
- So far I didn't find any.
November 05, 2019
AWS - fast and simple cloud virtualization
We use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for hosting almost every imaginable type of application. We utilize it regularly and company-wide for trying new things as a POC as well as for mature application hosting. It is very easy for us to spin up new virtual computing environments, as needed, and on demand.
- We like the native AWS RBAC authorization tools for controlling access without having to add other layers of complexity.
- We like the robustness and simplicity of S3 storage services and the related APIs.
- The ability to quickly provision and manage complex computing environments is 2nd to none in the industry.
- Like any suite of applications they could benefit from having a team of usability experts make the products more intuitive.
- Like most cloud solutions they could make it easier to understand the total costs associated with the various feature sets and related constraints.
- Customer service in the technical support area could be improved - they could use a bit more of a personal touch at times.
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.
September 11, 2019
Great Service For All Your Needs
We currently use Amazon Web Services in multiple parts of our organization. We use it for the development of our product, QA, Sandbox and UAT scenarios, as well as in our production environment. AWS allows us to reliably provide our customers with the services we have to offer. It also allows us to test the latest technologies and make future plans to develop our software to use them.
- AWS allows us to scale up (or down) depending on our busy season. Our software has fairly predictable "busy" seasons, so this allows us to properly spend on infrastructure based on needs.
- EBS Snapshots allow us to create in-time based backups. We use these as part of our DRP/BCP.
- Understanding the AWS bill is very confusing. Sometimes it is nearly impossible to track what charges are for which particular service is using which feature.
- The ability to tag all items, including Marketplace items for cost usage report would be especially useful. The cost usage report being more detailed when filtering by usage and cost allocation tags would also be exceptionally helpful.
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.
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.
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.