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Amazon Web Services

Overview

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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Recent Reviews

Great for remote access desktops

9 out of 10
November 04, 2022
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 …
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AWSome

10 out of 10
December 28, 2021
Incentivized
We have a product that is a distributed system, SaaS on AWS. We use Route53 to register our domain and configure subdomains. We use EC2 to …
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Do NOT use AWS

1 out of 10
November 29, 2021
Domain registration for my small business. AWS system, processes, and staff cause me to lose money and they did not take responsibility …
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Popular Features

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  • Security controls (65)
    9.3
    93%
  • Monitoring tools (64)
    9.1
    91%
  • Dynamic scaling (64)
    9.1
    91%
  • Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime (63)
    8.8
    88%

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Pricing

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Free Tier

$0

Cloud
per month

Basic Environment

$100 - $200

Cloud
per month

Intermediate Environment

$250 - $600

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.clickittech.com/aws/aws…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $100 per month
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Features

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

IaaS provides the basic building blocks for an IT infrastructure like servers, storage, and networking, in an on-demand model over the Internet

8.9
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

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.


Amazon Web Services Integrations

Amazon Web Services Competitors

Amazon Web Services Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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October 02, 2023

Best and most comprehensive cloud platform

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Banking Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
I've seen AWS work really well across various products. We've used it recently for low latency trading solutions.
AWS can improve its footprint near certain locations where there are massive datacenters to improve on latency.
Also cross-region communication can be improved
September 01, 2023

AWS Lightsail: Highly recommended for launching WordPress websites

Rajeev Bagra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rajeev Bagra
Web Developer
Techcosec Limited (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
We recommend AWS Lightsail with Plesk Ubuntu Web Admin (free) edition for launching WordPress websites. Pricing starts with 3.5$ per month and they are providing 3 months free. In order to access advanced features of Plesk, consider upgrading to paid Plesk plans that starts with 13.50$ per month (10 websites supported). Up to 40% discount is available for the first year. Anyway, even the free Plesk Web Admin version is by itself self sufficient with free SSL.
February 09, 2023

What can AWS do for you

Verified User
Supervisor in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Very few places have all that AWS offers in one place. This makes it a no-brainer for most applications. If you need to run a Minecraft server, AWS has got you. If you need to spool up a windows environment for someone to test out the software on without being on your network? AWS has got you as well. Limitless potential.
September 29, 2022

Best in class cloud service provider currently in the market

Prashant Chaudhari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Prashant Chaudhari
Head of Engineering & Founding team member
Jombay (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Web Services has a solution for almost all of the problems associated with building and scaling modern web applications and running AI / ML workloads. It also provides a highly secure and robust cloud infrastructure to run any kind of service without getting into any compliance issues.
March 31, 2022

Always Working Spectacularly = AWS

Andrew (Andy) Richman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Andrew (Andy) Richman
Global Solutions Specialist
GTT (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
It is best for backup and disaster recovery. Great for analytics and data archives. Conforms with the latest security requirements for most industries. Excellent for managing big data. One-stop solution for any IT business Fits ideally for social networking and/or gaming.
December 28, 2021

AWSome

Amro Misbah | TrustRadius Reviewer
Amro Misbah
DevOps Cloud Engineer
Cloudypedia (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
[Amazon Web Services] is well suited for every solution you aim to implement. Whether it happened to be production, staging/testing, PoC. You will have services that help you easily implement the solution you want. Also if you are just figuring out what [Amazon Web Services] is, they give you a free tier that you can use for a year.
December 13, 2021

AWS world is great to explore!!

Sreedhar Sree | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sreedhar Sree
Sr. Automation QA in Machine Learning
Wells Fargo (Banking, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Web services are well suited for all applications where integration and scaling are on high priority. It solves so many business problems on this front, considering the innovation they are doing for all the products these will add great value to Saas or Paas products to be specific. AWS offers this innovation to our products by taking care of security aspects meticulously, which is why AWS is always a go-to choice for most business problems.
November 05, 2021

Feeling AWSome to be part of the app modernization

Debobrata Bose | TrustRadius Reviewer
Debobrata Bose
Solution Architect
Danske Bank (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS is very well suited for PAAS, IAAS capabilities .
Its can be very well used for containerization using services like EKS and ECS
It is very efficient in handling loads of unstructured data in terms of storage and retrieval using DynamoDB etc
AWS can be challenging in handling migration of workloads from on-prem to AWS cloud
It may not be appropriate to use AWS for SaaS capablities.
September 08, 2021

Cybersecurity analytics & threat exposure powered by AWS!

Siddhartha Murthinty | TrustRadius Reviewer
Siddhartha Murthinty
Chief Solutions Architect
SPIRE SOLUTIONS (Computer & Network Security, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS is our choice of technology for our Data Analytics platform as it 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 also rely on Amazon S3 for storing data backups.
August 27, 2021

Amazon Web Services - Nice idea, but awful support and overly complex

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon is okay if you are prepared to be trained in their very opaque systems and spend a lot of time becoming an AWS expert. AWS is not for your average Joe, or those who do not want to spend a lot of time becoming AWS certified. [In my experience] other systems are far more user-friendly and intuitive. I would not recommend AWS services. We have had issues with being overbilled when their products went wrong and are unable to get issues escalated. There have also been issues with getting access to talk to supervisors/managers, or being advised of how to access a formal complaints process that doesn't send us back to the same team we are already complaining about for lack of results, responses, or professionalism. We have been trapped by the same support(sic) team, who handles escalations, complaints, etc. In short, they aren't resolving or working to resolve the issues and we cannot get past them to get this looked at. We also cannot inform someone of the issues we are having with this team as they block all options to talk to supervisors, managers, etc. [I feel] AWS has given their unsupervised teams the ability to not do their jobs and block complaints. We are trapped by our systems being on AWS and them being difficult to extract. Also, we are grossly overcharged for services we don't use. We will never use AWS again.
August 08, 2021

Power, Scaling, Versatility at a Competetive Price

Sean Patterson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sean Patterson
Software Development Director
Fresh Consulting (Internet, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Web Services is well suited for nearly any kind of web application or cloud-connected solution you are looking to build. Amazon Web Services provides various scaling options for nearly all of its services, so you can optimize your cost by not using too much power until necessary. Amazon Web Services has a rich API to all of its services, making it very flexible and powerful from a developer perspective. The web interface to manage resources is still a little outdated, so if you have clients that are reliant upon it, you may look into other options as not to intimidate them.
July 30, 2021

Best experience on the cloud with AWS

NK
Nitish Kapoor
Senior Application Developer
IBM (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS is well suited for any size and type of project. The integration between various AWS tools and services is very fast and easy. The engineers can start to work with AWS with some initial trainings. One can deploy anything from a database mobile app to an enterprise level large application.
June 25, 2021

Amazon Web Services - a platform for deployment.

Tanay Arora | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tanay Arora
Engineer Intern
GREAT FUTURE TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE LIMITED (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Web Services is well suited when you have to make a project in which you want that all the work could be done automatically or in technical words, where you want automation in your project, Amazon web service is most welcome there.
It could be fast and robust and good for the deployment of the application's backend and APIs.
May 10, 2021

Welcome to Cloud City

TC
Tyler Cook
Server and Cloud Engineer
OnPoint Group (Consumer Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need to expand your compute footprint quickly without having to go through the hardware acquisition process. Amazon Web Services can help quickly augment your on prem compute power to run the one off yearly processes without leaving you with unused hardware for 10 months of the year.

If you're looking to get out of hosting your own datacenter, AWS is a perfect replacement.

If you're looking to scale your website, or even host your own small business Amazon is the ideal solution.

Once you no longer need to worry about the underlying hardware to run your servers you can truly focus your time on adding value to your company.
April 15, 2021

AWS = Expensive Geek Toys

KM
Kenny McGarrity
IT Infrastructure Manager
Pace Supply (Wholesale, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
This is the defacto public cloud, and you will find your next generation applications using AWS whether you plan to or not. AWS is awesome for long-term storage of backups, offloading high-volume traffic onto a public cloud that would otherwise run in your on-premise environment. It's basically a rental for servers that you can spin up and down as your needs change.
April 15, 2021

AWS best to go service anytime.

Rahul Chhajed | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rahul Chhajed
Software Engineer
Atlantis (Internet, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
More suited I will say deploying your Web-server, Running some cloud applications, Deploying your micro-services, Managed database. Less suited is really hard to say but there can be some scenario where you can use free services like Google spreadsheet scripting for smaller data management and small workflows. Workflow automation is something you need multiple vendors to talk to each other at that time its preferred to go for something else.
April 13, 2021

AWS Review

Verified User
Technician in Customer Service
Accounting Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We've chosen [Amazon Web Services] as our infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS) solution across the whole organization for all our development environments, i.e. dev, staging, and production. We build custom-coded apps (full-stack). We specifically use it as our cloud solution for compute, storage and content delivery. This allows us to provide the best service to our end users as possible.
April 09, 2021

Review from daily user (Know about hidden facts, ROI, etc)

Gnanasekar Mani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gnanasekar Mani
Project Engineer
Wipro Limited (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Best things:
1) Due to first comers in the space, they have scaled up their operation so well and have vast variety of services and category to provide.
2) Their customer executives are really effective and talented people and will be able to answer most of our questions can be technical or configuration stuff.

To be Improved:
1) They charge more for the enterprise support, if we opt for and the cost of the support will be based upon our monthly bills, which can be reduced or it can changed.

April 08, 2021

Set and forget cloud services

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Think Tanks Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you run a website that uses a CMS and you host it on a server you pay for, it is a great CDN. It is also great if you need to deploy files, software, software updates, or other packages to computers your company manages. If you host a website with an online service, AWS is not necessarily the best option. If you need the best security, AWS may not be the right option. It isn't as secure as some other options.
April 08, 2021

Amazon Web Services - Continuing the standard for cloud computing

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Web Services is really made for any type of project. They are seemingly always offering new products and features. It preforms best in a dynamic cloud native environment when you have services that need to scale up and down. On the flip side of this you'd likely be able to get better bang for you buck from other providers at fixed rates if you have steady needs/scale
April 06, 2021

Migrate to Amazon Web Services and transform the way your company does IT

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS is the current standard and future of public cloud computing. Their ability to expand their platform and improve the existing services is unmatched. Even with a heavily regulated industry such as ours, we have found a way to leverage AWS for the entirety of our enterprise workloads.
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