AWS = Expensive Geek Toys
April 15, 2021
AWS = Expensive Geek Toys
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Web Services
AWS serves PACE in a couple of ways. The IT Department primarily uses EC2 to host the infrastructure to our ecommerce website. We offload our onsite Veeam backups with S3 and glacier. We also host our spam filter and a remote assistance tool in AWS. AWS has provided our company a way to spin up offsite (cloud) services easily, and in a flexible enough of an environment that lends itself to the next generation of software products.
- AWS is particularly good at eating up your money if you don't budget and plan your deployment properly.
- It's like a candy shop for IT Geeks who love automation and workflows.
- You name the service you want to deploy on the cloud, chances are someone's built it for AWS.
- See the first entry on my Pros list.
- Billing can be a bit confusing, so get familiar with it!
- It's Amazon, and they have a virtual monopoly on the cloud.
- AWS has given our company access to inexpensive public cloud that is flexible and scalable.
- We've AWS has given extra feature set with software products we already own.
The decision was made to go with AWS because of name recognition and familiarity by contractors we hired. I checked out Google Compute Engine a few years ago, and it did have similar option set, however Google in general was behind Amazon's 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?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Amazon Web Services go as expected?
No
Would you buy Amazon Web Services again?
Yes