Item: Amazon Web Services
Rating: 9
Author: Siddhartha Murthinty

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AWS is our choice of technology for our Data Analytics platform. It is being used organization-wide. AWS has altered the way we perform our vulnerability management, application security, breach detection, and IT troubleshooting. We utilize AWS's offering of services for computing, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, and security. We rely upon S3 and other
AWS services to process and store our data. We chose AWS because the data is stored in AWS data centers located inside nondescript
facilities.

Pros and Cons

Physical Security: We chose AWS because the data is stored in AWS data centers located inside nondescript facilities.
Multi-featured Cloud offering: We utilize AWS's offering of services for computing, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, and security.
Least Privileged Design: Our cloud uses a microservice architecture consisting of several small services working together. These services are logically separated into several different AWS accounts to minimize the blast radius of security incidents.

Traceability: If we could ensure that all cloud actions are being logged and monitored such as AWS API actions, that would be great.
We might want to include access to servers and services being logged to external systems to prevent tampering.
Incorporate more than the current five following cloud regions: United States, Canada, Europe - Germany and Ireland, Japan, and Australia

Return on Investment

It has positively reinforced our cloud based service offerings to our clients.
Our GTM approach has been remarkably increased with our ability to conduct cloud-powered demos.
AWS has empowered our agility to offer a multitude of solution-based service offerings as against a standalone service offering via our platform.

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

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS is our choice of technology for our Data Analytics platform as it has altered the way we perform our vulnerability management, application security, breach detection, and IT troubleshooting. We utilize AWS's offering of services for computing, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, and security. We also rely on Amazon S3 for storing data backups.

Support Rating

The MTTR is as per the SLA and the responses are not "copy-paste". AWS's support plans are well designed to give us the right mix of tools and access to expertise in order to optimize performance, manage risk, and keep costs under control. Since we have production workloads in AWS, the 24x7 phone, email, and chat access to Cloud Support Engineers are vital.

Usability

Our cloud platform architecture was designed in order to collect, analyze, and optimize modern networks, from AWS-powered computing, networking, storage, and more. So, we needed a reliable, scalable, and secure global computing infrastructure. Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing were key features in our evaluation and later on for scalability and high performance. We being a cybersecurity company, we needed to ensure that our cloud provider utilizes an end-to-end approach to secure and harden the infrastructure, including physical, operational, and software measures - which AWS had all in place.

Cybersecurity analytics & threat exposure powered by AWS!

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Web Services