Amazon Web Services My Preferred Cloud Platform
June 17, 2025

Amazon Web Services My Preferred Cloud Platform

Arvind Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Web Services

We are using various services of Amazon Web Services for storage, compute, container orchestration and a lot more. We are using S3 for storage of various documents and files. EC2 and Lambda for deploying some services and APIs. ECS for deploying containers based applications. We are also using Amazon Web Services Route 53 for DNS management. Apart from this, we use cognito, API gateway, Glue, secret manager and a lot more. Amazon Web Services makes it fast and easy to provision the infrastructure.

Pros

  • Security group changes takes effect in real time.
  • Storing blob files is very easy with S3.
  • IAM makes access management very easy.

Cons

  • When there is any misconfiguration of EC2 related to SSM Connect. It doesn't clearly states that what particular configuration is missing.
  • Debugging networking related issues could be improved.
  • From the security group page, it's difficult to determine which resource a security group is associated with.
  • Provisioning resources like large database instances is really quick. We can easily scale our instances up or down as per need.
  • Storing files in S3 instead of onprem NAS drives is much more economical, especially for the files stored in glacier deep archive for compliance purposes.
  • Backup snapshots of EBS volumes and RDS instances may increase the cost of cloud if not cleaned up properly.
Amazon Web Services provide an excellent usability experience. Services are easy to locate. Creating any service using Amazon Web Services console is also very easy and intuitive. Services are well documented and community support is also vast and easily available. Resource provisioning can be easily automated using cloud formation templates and third party tools like Terraform.
Apart from Amazon Web Services, we use Microsoft Azure in some of our projects. I have some basic experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as well. If given a choice, I would prefer using Amazon Web Services over Azure or GCP. I find provisioning of resources relatively faster on Amazon Web Services. Also, most of the changes related to IAM and security and immediately reflected without any delay.

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

I find Amazon Web Services more easy to use as compared to some other public cloud offerings. e.g. storing data in S3 is very easy and access and also be maintained using easily using bucket policies. For container orchestration ECS is much user friendly and intuitive as compared to Kubernetes services.
It would have been better if Amazon Web Services could provide a logical container for multiple resources (e.g. resource groups in Azure), which would make it easy to clean up the resources.

Amazon Web Services Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
9.7
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
10
Dynamic scaling
10
Elastic load balancing
10
Pre-configured templates
9
Monitoring tools
10
Pre-defined machine images
9
Operating system support
10
Security controls
10
Automation
9

Comments

More Reviews of Amazon Web Services

  1. Home
  2. Infrastructure-as-a-Service Solutions
  3. Amazon Web Services Reviews
  4. User Review of Amazon Web Services