AWS - a solid platform for building cloud solutions
Updated November 26, 2014
AWS - a solid platform for building cloud solutions
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
2014
Modules Used
- EC2
- S3
- EBS
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Web Services
AWS is the platform that we use to deliver secure, highly-available solutions in the cloud. We deploy it for the entire company, as well as for our clients.
- High-availability; AWS has an amazing capacity for spinning up resources across multiple zones, territories and services.
- Auto-scaling; This requires some expertise, but a solution with proper architecture can support a virtually infinite user base.
- Security and compliance, but this takes some expertise and understanding
- Billing support - Bills are verbose, but difficult to allocate across different projects or software stacks without creating (and then verifying) multiple billing accounts
- Ease of use: documentation and community are powerful and large, but there is a learning curve to be able to leverage the full power of AWS.
- Solutions - AWS is still very much infrastructure building blocks. Launching a solution, say scalable SharePoint in the cloud, is not in the AWS repertoire.
- AWS has let us build our business. That's key.
AWS has more flexibility and a lower cost to get started. Also, AWS has datacenters that have gone through government compliance that we might later need.