AWS is a great product and well documented.
October 27, 2015

AWS is a great product and well documented.

Breck LeSueur | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • S3
  • EC2
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • RDS

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services is being used by the Software Development department. We use S3 to host videos and thumbnail images for a particular web application. In the past we've used EC3 to host a Node.js server and RDS services to host a MySQL database.

Pros

  • I've found AWS easy to setup.
  • I found it easy to upload videos and images to S3 using their GUI.
  • It was also easy to setup security permission on S3 so only a single site could access our videos.

Cons

  • When connecting up EC2 and RDS it was a bit difficult, but that was a few years ago so the process may have improved. I think Elastic Beanstalk addresses this issue.
  • AWS has made it easy to host our videos and images and to make them more secure.
AWS seems to be a great fit for someone on a budget and who plans on the use of their services scaling. But it may not be the best fit for someone who has a simple website and could find cheaper hosting elsewhere.

Amazon Web Services Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
9.3
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
10
Dynamic scaling
10
Elastic load balancing
10
Pre-configured templates
8
Monitoring tools
8
Pre-defined machine images
9
Operating system support
9
Security controls
10

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