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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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Awards

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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

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per month

Basic Environment

$100 - $200

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per month

Intermediate Environment

$250 - $600

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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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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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April 05, 2021

AWS

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I would strongly advise that companies use [Amazon Web Services]. They deliver on the needs that we have and have provided the comfort in knowing that we are protected. Prior to our Rubrik / AWS setup, we had to take Backup tapes to other locations to make sure data was safe. This is so much more secure. I am super pleased with this design.
July 18, 2020

Startups, go for it

Salwat Hamrah | TrustRadius Reviewer
Salwat Hamrah
Co-Founder
Get Beyond Limits (Hospitality, 1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
For a startup, it is one of the best things. But for large companies, the bills may become high, so keep searching for alternatives, I would say. Until now, we have not come up with anything that can beat Amazon Web Services in any way. Also, you become comfortable with what you use.
May 28, 2020

One-stop solution for all your IT needs

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Any firm small or big can fulfill all their IT requirements using AWS. Although it is best suited for small or medium sized organizations who don't want to invest in an on-premise infrastructure and want a ready-to-go solution even larger organizations can utilize many AWS services as stand-alone features which can be integrated with third party apps.
February 15, 2020

If you want to save on internal resources, Amazon Web Services might be right choice for you

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Hospitality Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon is well suited if you have a small, busy team to which you do not want to add an extra project. No matter its size, a new application would need (at least) constant efforts of backup, upgrade and security as well as technical support like storage increase, etc. Unless you have enough in-house resources and it is economically feasible, you can easily consider using AWS.
January 24, 2020

Build enterprise class infrastructure at a reasonable cost. AWS is a winner in my book

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS is great for any organization, and can scale as your organization grows. If managed correctly, AWS will provide enterprise level reliability and availability at a reasonable cost. The more services that are added to AWS and the more complex environments become, you will have to add staff to properly manage AWS.
January 15, 2020

My AWS experience

Zakarieya Abderoef | TrustRadius Reviewer
Zakarieya Abderoef
Solutions Architect
BarakaTechnology Group (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Web Services is well suited for startup organisations that can benefit from immediate deployment of the virtual infrastructure and applications on a cloud platform. It's also cost-effective since you do not have to lay out a huge capital investment especially for small start-up businesses. AWS is also useful for organisations who need to rapidly deploy infrastructure to test applications and for those short-term projects that do not require permanent infrastructure. AWS can also be cost effective for running your disaster recovery environment on Cloud platform.
November 11, 2019

Excellent cloud service provider

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Web Services are very useful when we need serverless technologies or DB as service or Queue services etc. AWS has tons of services in all the aspects we need. it is a one-stop solution for all your cloud needs. But if we don't but your infrastructure in the right way you will end up paying a lot.
November 07, 2019

AWS delivers the solid, stellar performance you would expect it to

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Product Management
E-Learning Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I'm not sure where it wouldn't be appropriate unless someone was just starting out and maybe was super budget-conscious. I imagine there are some less expensive alternatives out there but honestly, the barrier to entry is pretty low.
November 05, 2019

AWS - fast and simple cloud virtualization

Verified User
Program Manager in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS is perfect for global computing and creating geo-redundant virtual stacks that can be architected for high availability. It's a great way to host mission critical applications as well as a place to try something new in a very short timeframe. Overall I have nothing bad to say about AWS services, they are robust, complete and highly scalable. Though we are a multi-cloud company, we use AWS for about 75% of our cloud hosted solutions.
October 24, 2019

AWS for test and dev environment with easy chargeback facilities

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS is very well suited when you need cloud services (compute, storage, analytics, etc) on demand. It tends to be expensive if you are looking at long term workload deployments. It is also not well suited if you are new to public cloud deployments.
September 16, 2019

Amazon Web Services is a complete world that has helped with my workload

Martha Batruny | TrustRadius Reviewer
Martha Batruny
IT Manager
Perficient (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Each and every feature of this application is unique and is also efficient enough to help me to make suitable decisions for my company. Apart from this, if I talk about any concerns in it or any disastrous drawbacks then there are no words because this application is a lifesaver by every point of view without having anything to objectify. Moreover, this application provides me with the right of pre-built services, which benefit me when building custom cloud-based solutions.
September 11, 2019

Great Service For All Your Needs

CN
Calvin Nystrom
Cloud Infrastructure Administrator
Health e(fx) (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The flexibility that Amazon Web Services offers is nearly unbeatable in comparison to any other cloud offering. AWS is constantly making improvements on existing services while simultaneously creating new service offerings. In our environment, we have a very heavy MS SQL footprint. AWS allows us to scale up our servers to the best possible instance size based on the current needs.
July 18, 2019

Serverless Saviors!

Denzel Robinson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Denzel Robinson
Operation Engineer
Asurion (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is a well-balanced service for commercial-scale applications or at homes start-ups. You can experiment with different environments to find a configured that suits your needs, without the fear of long-term consequences. This allows for high performing, highly available architecture that is also cost-effective. You can configure your environment down to the minutia, or launch a wizard to handle it for you, allowing for mass-scale deployments.
July 17, 2019

AWS is the best cloud provider

DS
David Sandoval
Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer
LifeMiles (Program Development, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS is well suited for secure, highly available, low latency web apps, running databases (any engine), storing your data (sensitive or not), running microservices, serverless architectures or IaaS. It can be used by anyone even if you don't have any experience. It works for companies of any size, market, and geographic location.
July 17, 2019

The biggest name in cloud services, for a good reason

PP
Patrick Plaisance
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
Pachyderm Consulting (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS services are well-suited for organizations of all sizes. Using a backup app like CloudBerry Backup plus AWS S3 or Glacier would be great for a small office/home office media consultant, for example, backing up large quantities of multimedia data to the cloud. S3 buckets can (and should!) also be used to host website content for any size business.It is well-suited for small to medium-sized businesses who need to spin up a server for a specific application and can easily deploy EC2 instances. And of course, as we all know, the biggest enterprise businesses in tech use AWS services to host their cloud.

Who isn't AWS for? Well, there is something to be said about putting all your eggs in one basket. For those who are hesitant to move their businesses to the cloud entirely, I would obviously recommend against using multiple AWS services. Also, for organizations who have strict IT budgets, estimating AWS costs can be tough and might be frowned upon by their finance departments.
June 06, 2019

AWS is highly recommended for mid-to-large scale companies having global operations.

Verified User
Executive in Finance and Accounting
Internet Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS is well-suited for mid-to-large scale operations. I do not recommend them for small companies with local operations, as it may be expensive and hard to setup/provision. Companies using AWS may need extra DevOps people to manage AWS resources in order to have the right resource with the rigth price. Mid-to-large scale companies can manage AWS more effectively and leverage their services efficiently.
May 01, 2019

Amazon Web Services does a great job of fulfilling cloud based requirements!

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Management Consulting Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Web Services is well suited when we have a huge amount of data to store, process, manipulate and get meaningful information out of. It is also suitable when we need very fast data retrieval from the database. We also have deployed many cron jobs to schedule some tasks to be accomplished automatically.
April 27, 2019

Novice migration to AWS was a success

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
There are so many services offered by Amazon in addition to simply migrating your server to an AWS instance. We also use SES for our bulk email sending of client invoices (~30,000 per week). We use S3 buckets for storing image files that are on our server inside our internal and customer-facing web apps.
January 18, 2019

A Product Managers Perspective on AWS and Cloud Computing by Amazon

Nathan Sichilongo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nathan Sichilongo
Regional Manager
Dotcom Zambia (Consumer Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Web Services is well suited for companies or organizations that need to run specific applications or virtual services on servers. The cost-per-server ratio makes this ideal for testing and live deployment scenarios. It is especially ideal for smaller to medium size IT development teams. If you are looking to just set up a website, for example, AWS may not be ideal unless you are having it custom built.
December 07, 2018

AWS has changed our business in a multitude of ways.

Stella Gillham | TrustRadius Reviewer
Stella Gillham
Vice President, Client Services & Resources
PMD Media (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
While we are a small company, we have millions of photos of our work, and AWS has been the perfect host. We have access at any time, and are able to archive data as needed. We are also able to access our archive without any trouble. It's a no-brainer, really. I don't see how anyone would want to go anywhere else. Our data is always available and secure.
December 01, 2018

AWS can be easy to use for main products, other difficult to even get started

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Staffing and Recruiting Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for quickly provisioning a web and application hosting platform that you are able to have greater control over managing additional resources.
It is well suited for databases.
It is well suited for storage.
It is well suited for experimental applications.
It is not as well suited authentication and user management.
September 19, 2018

AWS Can't Be Beat for What We All Really Need: Great Service!

Jackie Bassett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jackie Bassett
NEJM Insights Council
NEJM Group (Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Infrastructure as a service is what every sized company should be doing these days, so we can all focus on our expertise. We were lucky that we chose AWS in our, and their earliest days as I can't imagine having built out several SBUs and then having to migrate over to them now. Google would prefer to own this space but we found them far less attractive to work with. Google's a search engine that sells ads. Even as Google try to build out fiber, they're never have the level of customer service that businesses relying on infrastructure need. Amazon, is really the only and the best choice!
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