Amazon Web Services -- Easy to setup, difficult to manage
January 31, 2018
Amazon Web Services -- Easy to setup, difficult to manage
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Web Services
Before my company changed hands, my department underwent training for AWS. If you are going to use AWS, I highly recommend taking the training on CBTNuggets, otherwise you will be lost. The feature that I have used is S3 storage. It is ridiculously easy to use, and very affordable.
- Scales cloud services to meet the user's needs, in a nutshell you only pay for what you use.
- Amazon SES is perfect for sending bulk emails, and integrates with applications already in use.
- S3 storage is the most reliable cloud storage that I have used, and it is also used by several big name websites.
- AWS is really difficult to use if you do not have any training.
- You need to create your own backups. I cannot verify this, but a co-worker of mine stated that he did now create a back, and lost several items.
- It is very expensive for everyday use. AWS is for people that have done the research, and know exactly what they need. These instances are not toys, believe me.
- I have seen people spend a lot of money just playing with AWS because they had no idea what they were doing. Pay attention, and know what you are getting into before you do anything.
- My previous company was in the process of moving entirely to AWS, and I know it had to be cost effective because they had datacenters at over 20 locations.
AWS is usually the most affordable between GC, AWS, and Azure. If I was using a Windows machines only environment, I would go with Azure and for any other setup I would go with Amazon Web Services. For the record, AWS has been around longer than the others too.