AWS is powerful, flexible and infinitely scalable platform
October 30, 2015
AWS is powerful, flexible and infinitely scalable platform
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- S3
- Elastic Beanstalk
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is an extremely powerful, yet flexible platform for developing applications. We primarily use it to quickly and cost-effectively establish application infrastructure to support our mobile apps.
- Provides Options: there are so many services and modules available that you can choose from depending on the degree of control that you need or sys admin expertise that you have.
- Provides Scalability: it's very easy to get up and running and to do so in a cost-effective manner, but when your application needs to scale, Amazon Web Services can do so and a price that makes sense for your needs rather than a flat rate for services you don't use.
- Provides Management: the degree to which, and ease with which, you can manage users and permissions is extremely vast (and sometimes even a bit overwhelming)
- The UI and usability of the administration tool could stand to be improved. Similarly, I think the documentation, while substantial, is not always as clear as it could be. It would be nice to see examples and/or tutorials improved.
- Really it allows us to manage our own infrastructure with ease and flexibility, but it a hosted environment with unbounded technical support
AWS really seems to strike the right balance between other tools and offers the most of what we need in a single platform