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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 |
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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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November 05, 2019
AWS - fast and simple cloud virtualization
AWS is as good as any of the major cloud providers. I see a complete parity in this marketplace as innovations by one tend to be replicated by the others in short order. If you are looking to compare, or pilot, cloud hosting providers you must try AWS as they are a very strong offering that should meet your needs.
October 24, 2019
AWS for test and dev environment with easy chargeback facilities
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Compute Engine and Microsoft Azure
OCI and Google Compute Engine are a bit cheaper than AWS but AWS has better chargeback and more granular monitoring of various KPIs. But at the same time, AWS has a learning curve while GCE especially is much easier to use. Microsoft Azur has a much better partner and developer ecosystem than AWS.
September 26, 2019
AWS: short for Awesome
AWS is very widely adopted by our development team and the industry. AWS is investing in new products and services, as well as innovating on existing offerings.
September 16, 2019
Amazon Web Services is a complete world that has helped with my workload
If I talk about the product capabilities, I would say AWS is better than Microsoft Azure. It also provides excellent network and security services. Additionally, I would say the security and compliance of this product helps me to scale and innovate all
my databases, into one secure place, without any danger of errors or omissions.
September 11, 2019
Great Service For All Your Needs
We didn't really evaluate any other services, but we have researched the capabilities of other vendors and have decided that the offering that AWS is far superior to any other vendors.
July 17, 2019
AWS is the best cloud provider
AWS, in my opinion, is the most mature and popular cloud. It provides the biggest number of services available and the provider which innovates the most.
Since most of our clients are Office 365 users, Azure holds a lot of benefit in its integration possibilities. However, AWS is still less expensive and easier to manage in my experience. There will come a time though, that I'm sure we will move most clients to Azure. Google's products are just a mess in my opinion and I try to avoid using them as much as possible. However, I do have several clients who are very into the Google ecosystem so every now and then I find myself exploring their cloud services.
AWS is more reliable and has more coverage worldwide in terms of servers. AWS is more expensive but for the service quality, enterprise companies can spend more.
We have budget and data processing efficiency requirements for clients, and we deploy projects in a suitable cloud service based on said requirements. Amazon Web Services is suitable for some clients and not for others and that decision is made by an internal team.
Initially, we were with GoDaddy hosting but made a switch to a dedicated server with Bluehost. Our reasoning was that we would get more value from a dedicated server, however, as our SAAS grew we realized cloud computing was the way to go. We ended up choosing AWS over Digital Ocean even though the pricing is comparable. Our team felt that AWS was better and was the winner because of the ability to automatically scale our usage as needed.
There are many dedicated solutions if you are looking for a simple solution to host a service, however, if you are serious about growing your service and building something with customizable scalable specifications, AWS is the better option as it scales automatically based on your usage. Digital Ocean may also be a viable option depending on your development team size and recommendations.
There are many dedicated solutions if you are looking for a simple solution to host a service, however, if you are serious about growing your service and building something with customizable scalable specifications, AWS is the better option as it scales automatically based on your usage. Digital Ocean may also be a viable option depending on your development team size and recommendations.
December 07, 2018
AWS has changed our business in a multitude of ways.
We looked into other server hosts, but the cost was out of our budget. We were quoted a monthly fee of $500 to $750, plus an initial fee of over $1,000. AWS made the most financial sense as well as other reviews and recommendations.
The particular services I am using in AWS is easier to set up and manage than Microsoft Azure. IBM Bluemix/Cloud previously has too many product beta and preview released along with their products. Microsoft also releases too many products in preview or beta.
September 19, 2018
AWS Can't Be Beat for What We All Really Need: Great Service!
We looked at Microsoft 365 Business because it's so popular. It's ease of use seemed attractive but it didn't have the agility or scalability we found in AWS. IBM Analytics Engine was far more complex than we needed and very expensive. AWS is an operations tool for us so the reporting we get for the quality of service we wanted, is perfect as is.
January 31, 2018
Amazon Web Services -- Easy to setup, difficult to manage
AWS is usually the most affordable between GC, AWS, and Azure. If I was using a Windows machines only environment, I would go with Azure and for any other setup I would go with Amazon Web Services. For the record, AWS has been around longer than the others too.
January 09, 2018
Cloud Solutions at a glance: AWS
- Microsoft and Google App Engine
I selected AWS for my development environment and disaster recovery, due to the simplicity compared to other vendors.
August 16, 2017
AWS is the industry leader
Score 8 out of 10
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AWS is the industry leader and is far ahead in terms of a feature rich product offering along with worldwide presence
February 22, 2017
AWS for the win!
This is the ONLY Web Service we have used since my time with the company to manage our weekly MP3 uploads. I'd say it stacks up pretty well since we have stuck with it over the years! Simple & Effective!
December 23, 2016
My personal experience working with AWS
- Azure
A lot of companies are Microsoft users. It would be good if AWS would work closely with Microsoft. AWS had been working very hard in reaching out to different business verticals and making business cases for using the cloud. AWS's way of coming out with new services faster gives it an edge compared to other cloud providers.
AWS has more APIs to use on the cloud. Microsoft has an API mainly for the Microsoft platform. And Google has different big data analytics than other competitors [do].
April 29, 2016
Amazon built for tomorrow's needs
Azure is the other product that we have used for some of our clients. In certain places Azure was very competitively priced and clients chose to go with Azure as a platform. Billing by the minute is definitely a competitive advantage in certain cases. AWS pricing structures took some time for me to understand but it worked out well in the end.
April 27, 2016
Scale your business with AWS
Heroku is extremely unreliable and does not even come close to Amazon's capabilities. AWS has a well known reputation for being reliable for a number of different services. As your company scales, it is known to be the go to in order to provide the reliability needed to grow as a business.
April 15, 2016
AWS for all your needs
March 14, 2016
Cost effective web services
- Azure
AWS is Good for startups or FMCG customer but for FSI customer, their relationship is weak, hard to convince our client move to AWS
March 01, 2016
Global reach and scale at bargain prices
We like the platform agnostic approach. At the time we selected it (some years back), the security standard was higher and the price point was lower, and the global reach was at least as strong. It was very easy to get started. For our business, we also looked at Akamai and Vimeo, since we are video based, but they did not offer anywhere near the PaaS suite that AWS did.
February 25, 2016
Beginners view on AWS
Haven't used other products but did read about the alternative but by far AWS were more suited for our needs