Item: Amazon Web Services
Rating: 9
Author: Gnanasekar Mani

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Web Services

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been using Amazon Web Services for more than 3 years as of now. Its one of the best cloud computing platform, which has wide range of functionalities (services from Servers to ML, AI stuff) and the best part is all these services are provided in competitive pricing, also UI for the services is easy to understand and it has wide community following.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Great Functionality
Competitive pricing
Wide community following
Nearly 100 % uptime of most of the services
Variety of Availability zones and regions

Cons

Services can be sometimes having downtime
So many newcomers have come to the category, want to learn from them as well
Some services are associated with high cost due to low competition in the category

Return on Investment

Due to the elasticity of cloud, we can scale up or down without any upfront costs, and this have saved a lot for us. During COVID, we have scaled down our resources to 1/10th of the actual capacity, and this had positive savings and this can't be done if its not for cloud
Support cost if we have enterprise plan would cost us a fortune
ROI would be so high if we opt for reserved type of instances but the catch would be there is lock in period.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Azure

Both the services are in the field for quite sometime. And the biggest competitor of Amazon Web Services is Microsoft Azure. Though, Azure easily connects with Microsoft services like a jelly, even in AWS its so easy. And the best thing is due to its vast variety community following, we will be able to find n number of solutions for any type of issues we face.

Key Insights

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Amazon Web Services go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon Web Services again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon Route 53, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon CloudWatch

Likelihood to Recommend

Best things:
1) Due to first comers in the space, they have scaled up their operation so well and have vast variety of services and category to provide.
2) Their customer executives are really effective and talented people and will be able to answer most of our questions can be technical or configuration stuff.

To be Improved:
1) They charge more for the enterprise support, if we opt for and the cost of the support will be based upon our monthly bills, which can be reduced or it can changed.

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