AWS: short for Awesome
September 26, 2019
AWS: short for Awesome
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Web Services
AWS is used in many, but not all, departments within our organization. Leveraging AWS allows for our company to avoid upfront infrastructure investments and scale to customer demand with a very short ramp time (if any at all). Using a secure and best practice common cloud infrastructure mitigates much (but not all) of the security and business continuity risks.
- AWS is very cost-effective, costing far less than 1% of our revenue.
- AWS is very reliable, with the services we use being in the 4-11 9s SLA.
- AWS is very scalable, with the services being on-demand and growing with us as we need them.
- AWS doesn’t offer the same level of end-to-end software that Azure offers.
- S3 individual transactions can be expensive. AWS charges for transactions in addition to storage.
- EC2 instance controls are limited to one option. EC2 allows users to deploy dedicated hosts but they must declare an instance type. Each instance per host must be uniform that requires users to specify configurations like RAM, CPU, and bandwidth requirements.
- I cannot disclose the particulars, but consider this a glowing review of AWS's ROI.
AWS is very widely adopted by our development team and the industry. AWS is investing in new products and services, as well as innovating on existing offerings.
Do you think Amazon Web Services delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Amazon Web Services's feature set?
Yes
Did Amazon Web Services live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Amazon Web Services go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Amazon Web Services again?
Yes