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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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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

8.4
Avg 8.2
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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 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 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 From Top Reviewers

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AWS - still good

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 24, 2025
MB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Web Services
19 years of experience
  • Reliability
  • Comprehensive offerings
  • Support that works
Cons
  • Web console UI is sometimes inconsistent
  • Some services have historical feature gaps that take time to get addressed
  • Things can always be cheaper

Amazon Web Services My Preferred Cloud Platform

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 17, 2025
AK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Web Services
7 years of experience
  • Security group changes takes effect in real time.
  • Storing blob files is very easy with S3.
  • IAM makes access management very easy.
Cons
  • When there is any misconfiguration of EC2 related to SSM Connect. It doesn't clearly states that what particular configuration is missing.
  • Debugging networking related issues could be improved.
  • From the security group page, it's difficult to determine which resource a security group is associated with.

Amazon Web Services

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 19, 2025
MN
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Web Services
5 years of experience
  • Wide range of services
  • User-friendly dashboard/interface
  • Scalable and flexible
Cons
  • Pricing structure can be complex
  • It can be difficult to learn for beginners
  • Sometimes can be not user-friendly

Amazon Web Services Usage

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 19, 2025
KJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Web Services
10 years of experience
  • Auto Scaling feature
  • S3 Buckets
  • Elastic load balancer
Cons
  • Cost things need to be fixed
  • Availability of different zones in different regions
  • More robust features need to be added

Looking for Cloud services go with the market leader AWS.

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 23, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Web Services
6 years of experience
  • During the month-end, we experience high resource utilization; however, with AWS's scalability, we can effectively tackle the peak load.
  • With AWS IAM, we don't need to set up complete infrastructure for identity and access management, as AWS provides end-to-end IAM services.
  • With AWS, development has become very easy as it's very quick to spin up and destroy the environment, which saves costs.
Cons
  • I think the pricing is currently very costly. For small-scale enterprises, it's a little expensive.
  • There is still lack of support for legacy applications migration.
  • Finding AWS experts are difficult. AWS should focus more on training the consultants.
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