Item: Amazon Web Services
Rating: 10
Author: Nitish Kapoor

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our team is using Amazon Web Services as a cloud based service for various projects. We have deployed many Java and J2EE based applications on the Amazon EC2 instances. AWS vast variety of tools have helped us in seamless integration and deployment for our applications.

Pros and Cons

Wide range of services/tools available on a single platform
Fast and reliable cloud services
Rock solid security for your applications and deployments
High availability across multiple locations around the world
Regular updates and improvements in the tools and services offered

Some tools like CloudFront and SES need improvement
Extensive training is required to work with different tools of AWS
Costing for some services is high

Return on Investment

Saved us time as AWS has various services on a single platform
Very easy to learn, implement and deploy
Pricing is aggressive and we are able to cut the costs for multiple deployments

Support Rating

The support from AWS is really good. They have a dedicated platform for learning and training. Also extensive and detailed documentation is available for support and implementation for each AWS service/tool, that too with a lot of examples.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon Web Services go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon Web Services again?

Yes

Usability

AWS is offering many services under one umbrella and every year they are adding new and improving the existing ones. Hence if you want any type of deployment on the cloud, you will find one tool to solve the purpose.

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS is well suited for any size and type of project. The integration between various AWS tools and services is very fast and easy. The engineers can start to work with AWS with some initial trainings. One can deploy anything from a database mobile app to an enterprise level large application.

Best experience on the cloud with AWS

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Web Services