AWS fits like a glove
May 17, 2014
AWS fits like a glove
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Web Services
As the organization transitions from an in-house to SaaS model AWS was procured for hosting certain capabilities. This early-stage effort has signaled the validity of the transition model for future applications. Results have reduced inhouse IT expenditures and provided a simplified enterprise connectivity architecture through interface standards and high-performance bus speeds.
- Complete Failover and Disaster Recovery services which scale to your desired need
- Several service level options from dynamic storage pricing to pre-allocated
- Customer service responsiveness -- issues are resolved with a quick email or phone call rapidly
- Service Availability has been ok, yet a couple large outages brought down the service for "too long"
- Service Availability is worse than some competitors based on known metrics
- The efficiency of application integration with other services has been greatly increased
- Internal resources are no bogged down with custom interface challenges
- IT does not need to implement and maintain the hardware infrastructure necessary to support the application
The iwgcr.org publishes uptime statistics of cloud vendors over the past 7 years. Use this as a baseline comparison for your business needs, but be sure to understand the HA & DR capabilities as they will probably offset the poor uptime statistics you will see for AWS.