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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 |
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| 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 $100.
DXC Managed Cloud Services, 9STAR EasyIdentity Cloud, and 9STAR Elastic SSO are common alternatives for Amazon Web Services.
Reviewers rate Elastic load balancing and Security controls highest, with a score of 9.3.
The most common users of Amazon Web Services are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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September 01, 2023
AWS Lightsail: Highly recommended for launching WordPress websites
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
For launching in-house and clients' websites, we are using Amazon Lightsail (Plesk Ubuntu instance). Needless to say there is never an issue with AWS hosting. This is cost-effective as well since with each instance of Amazon Lightsail Plesk Ubuntu instance, 3 websites can be launched. There is a free version of Plesk Ubuntu (Web Admin edition) that we are using. This means we only need to pay AWS Lightsail hosting fee which starts with 3.5$ 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.
November 04, 2022
Great for remote access desktops
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
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
September 29, 2022
Best in class cloud service provider currently in the market
We use a AWS EC2, EKS, ECS, SES, SNS, SQS, S3, CloudFront, RDS, Elasticache, Lambda, Fargate etc across Jombay's suite of products. We use these services for solving problems like static and dynamic data storage, sending emails, running web applications, scaling web applications, securing web applications etc.
- Easy to use
- Highly reliable and available
- Good support from the support teams
- Cost effective
- User Interface for some of the services can improve (for ex: ECS)
- Support plan pricing needs to consider start-ups
March 31, 2022
Always Working Spectacularly = AWS
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It provides cost-effective cloud storage for Enterprises, that is readily accessible from anywhere. It is exceptional for on-demand computing services. It makes it fast and easy to move any existing applications to the cloud. It also provides specific database applications with the right tools built-in. I highly recommend it for any company, startup, or enterprise.
- Variety of databases and tools.
- Many cloud security tools support over 90 security standards and compliance certifications.
- AWS Lambda lets developers run coding without provisioning or using a managed server.
- Could use a simpler interface for provisioning.
- Billing does not include all the information I need.
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
November 29, 2021
Do NOT use AWS
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
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.
September 08, 2021
Cybersecurity analytics & threat exposure powered by AWS!
AWS is our choice of technology for our Data Analytics platform. It is being used organization-wide. AWS has altered the way we perform our vulnerability management, application security, breach detection, and IT troubleshooting. We utilize AWS's offering of services for computing, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, and security. We rely upon S3 and other
AWS services to process and store our data. We chose AWS because the data is stored in AWS data centers located inside nondescript
facilities.
- Physical Security: We chose AWS because the data is stored in AWS data centers located inside nondescript facilities.
- Multi-featured Cloud offering: We utilize AWS's offering of services for computing, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, and security.
- Least Privileged Design: Our cloud uses a microservice architecture consisting of several small services working together. These services are logically separated into several different AWS accounts to minimize the blast radius of security incidents.
- Traceability: If we could ensure that all cloud actions are being logged and monitored such as AWS API actions, that would be great.
- We might want to include access to servers and services being logged to external systems to prevent tampering.
- Incorporate more than the current five following cloud regions: United States, Canada, Europe - Germany and Ireland, Japan, and Australia
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
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
August 08, 2021
Power, Scaling, Versatility at a Competetive Price
Amazon Web Services is being used internally and with clients to provide top-quality solutions that are cloud-based. The wide variety of services available allows us to customize the scale and type of solutions our clients need. Anything from web hosting to ML needs are available to us. Large and small problems are being solved through Amazon Web Services offerings.
It is of tremendous value.
- Availability
- Scalability
- Flexibility
- Web Interface
- Documentation
- IAM Documentation
July 30, 2021
Best experience on the cloud with AWS
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
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
Vetted Review
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
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.
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.
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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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 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.