I primarily use it as a cloud-based platform that's easy to scale.
Consultant at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
Great performance, perfect for scaling, and offers good integration capabilities
Pros and Cons
- "The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
- "The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
- "Identity and access management on AWS could be straightforward."
- "Identity and access management on AWS could be made to be much more straightforward."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly.
The performance is great.
Everything is very clear and there are no complex procedures to follow. it's a very easy-to-use solution.
The integration is very good. Integrating anything with it is easy to do.
What needs improvement?
In IBM we have IM, identity access management. For all the solutions in AWS, identity access is not quite so straightforward. Identity and access management on AWS could be made to be much more straightforward. That is something that they could work on. If they could work on that and use it for load balancing, that would be ideal.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using the solution for a year and a half or so.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution performance well. The stability is very good. there are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is excellent. Whatever your needs are, if you need to grow, Amazon can handle it.
We have 20 people working with the product currently.
How are customer service and support?
I've never gotten to the point where I needed to reach out to technical support. I cannot speak to how helpful or responsive they would be.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We also use IBM.
How was the initial setup?
It's a cloud-based service. It's easy to set everything up.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
With the enterprise product, you have to pay for a license, however, if you are using the open-source version, you don't pay to license it.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We did not evaluate any other products before choosing AWS.
What other advice do I have?
As a cloud-based solution, we're using the latest version at all times. It's consistently updated.
I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.
I would 100% recommend this product to other users and companies.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
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Senior Architect, Technology Transformation Group at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Easy to use with good performance and good technical support
Pros and Cons
- "The product is nice and stable. Its performance is great."
- "The solution is very easy to use, the product is nice and stable, its performance is great, and the technical support has been good."
- "The solution could offer better integration capabilities."
- "The solution could offer better integration capabilities."
What is our primary use case?
Web developers use the solution for application building, modernization, cloud transformation, new development, and budget solutions. It has a wide variety of use cases.
What is most valuable?
The solution is very easy to use.
The product is nice and stable. Its performance is great.
The technical support has been good.
What needs improvement?
The solution could offer better integration capabilities.
The pricing is a bit high. It's an aspect they could improve upon.
For how long have I used the solution?
I don't use it in my current organization. I used to use it in my earlier organization. In fact, I don't really use it, however, we used to consult on it. I've been a consultant for about a year or so.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product is stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. The performance is great.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
At my organization, there are around 100 users on the solution.
How are customer service and technical support?
Technical support has been good. I have not heard of any customer complaints. It's my understanding that they are helpful and responsive and users are satisfied with their level of service.
How was the initial setup?
I was not a part of the installation process. I cannot speak to how easy or difficult the implementation was. I have no visibility on that aspect. I'm not sure what the makeup of the technical team was or how many people were used to deploy it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price of the solution can get expensive. They could work to lower it for their clients.
Those that use the licensing do need to pay a fee. It can be paid on a yearly or monthly basis.
What other advice do I have?
I've worked as a consultant.
We've been quite pleased with its capabilities. I'd rate it at a nine out of ten.
I'd recommend the product to other users or companies.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
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High quality features, flexible, and excellent virtualization capabilities
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable features I have found are the Database Migration Service (DMS) for monitoring the host and routing, Route 53, and EC2 tools. The DMS is not available in any other solution that I am aware of. They have a very flexible and professional solution."
- "Amazon AWS is the most powerful tool and is at the top for cloud and for virtualization."
- "If you have not had previous training or studied guides it will be a little difficult to use the solution. However, the difficulty also depends on what you are using the solution for. They can improve by providing more documentation, such as tutorials and videos."
- "If you have not had previous training or studied guides it will be a little difficult to use the solution."
What is our primary use case?
We are using the solution for network virtualization.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features I have found are the Database Migration Service (DMS) for monitoring the host and routing, Route 53, and EC2 tools. The DMS is not available in any other solution that I am aware of. They have a very flexible and professional solution.
What needs improvement?
If you have not had previous training or studied guides it will be a little difficult to use the solution. However, the difficulty also depends on what you are using the solution for. They can improve by providing more documentation, such as tutorials and videos.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for approximately five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have found the stability very good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is good.
How are customer service and technical support?
The technical support has been fine in my experience.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price of the solution is reasonable.
What other advice do I have?
Amazon AWS is the most powerful tool and is at the top for cloud and for virtualization. It has many features and products. It is wonderful and I keep learning from them.
I would highly recommend this solution to others.
I rate Amazon AWS a ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Senior Software Engineer at consol gulf
Stable and easy to set up but can be a bit expensive
Pros and Cons
- "The product is reliable and quite stable."
- "The dashboard is very good, the solution in general is user-friendly and easy to navigate, the product as a whole is very intuitive, the initial setup was quite easy, the product is reliable and quite stable, and the solution is fine for static hosting."
- "I want to use AWS as a full solution for my website - for domain and website hosting, and everything in between - however, I was not able to find everything together."
- "The product is a bit costly."
What is our primary use case?
I primarily used the solution more for a POC. The solution was primarily used for data lakes. However, my use case is more focused on getting the IDs up and running.
What is most valuable?
The dashboard is very good.
The solution in general is user-friendly and easy to navigate.
The product as a whole is very intuitive.
The initial setup was quite easy.
The product is reliable and quite stable.
The solution is fine for static hosting.
What needs improvement?
I cannot recall coming across any issues or any missing features.
There are some other issues I see, but that was more on the security side, not on EC2. That's more of a technical thing. I was not able to get it up and running, however, that was a different issue altogether. It was more due to my understanding of the solution.
I want to use AWS as a full solution for my website - for domain and website hosting, and everything in between - however, I was not able to find everything together. They should work to make it an easy all-in-one end-to-end solution.
The product is a bit costly.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution a bit, however, my specific experience is not up to date. My usage is not on the production side.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is very good. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. The performance is good and overall, the entire solution is reliable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We haven't attempted to scale the solution yet, as we are still at the POC phase. However, ultimately, that is the plan and it is my understanding that it will scale well.
How are customer service and technical support?
We've yet to contact technical support. I can't speak to how helpful or responsive they would be.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup, in the end, was pretty straightforward.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution can get to be expensive.
What other advice do I have?
We are using different services. We are using Alexa, for example, and static hosting. We do have a corporate account, however, we're not using a lot of services on it.
I'm not sure which version of the solution we are using.
We don't have a dedicated private cloud and therefore use a public cloud.
I'd recommend the solution to others. Overall, we enjoy using it.
I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
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Head of Data Projects at Cognitivo
An on-demand cloud computing platform that has a lot of specific solutions for different use cases
Pros and Cons
- "I like that the products are specific and objective. We can resolve a problem using a simple configuration. It's so easy to implement a solution and solve a problem using AWS solutions. AWS has a lot of specific solutions for different use cases. I think that this is the most important thing that made us consider using AWS."
- "I like that the products are specific and objective; we can resolve a problem using a simple configuration, and it's so easy to implement a solution and solve a problem using AWS solutions."
- "It would be better if there was a way to see which components were still on. We have some situations where I forget that some components are turned on. We forget some components are on, and we only see that these components are on when we see the bill at the end of the month. It would also be better if AWS had specialized firewalls or integrations with leading products. For example, a specialized firewall with content filtering. We were looking for some firewall tools, and we saw that AWS doesn't have any specialized firewall tools in its services portfolio. So, we are looking for other tools like FortKnox, Forcepoint, and Check Point because we didn't find the solutions in AWS services."
- "We were looking for some firewall tools, and we saw that AWS doesn't have any specialized firewall tools in its services portfolio."
What is our primary use case?
We usually use Amazon AWS to implement data lake solutions. We extract data from an AWS project that we implement, or we extract data from databases and centralize them with AWS components in AWS services. So, we create an infrastructure for our clients to consume their data. I like the components we use, like Amazon DMS or Database Migration Services, F3, and Amazon Athena. I think that these are the main components or the main services that we use.
What is most valuable?
I like that the products are specific and objective. We can resolve a problem using a simple configuration. It's so easy to implement a solution and solve a problem using AWS solutions. AWS has a lot of specific solutions for different use cases. I think that this is the most important thing that made us consider using AWS.
What needs improvement?
It would be better if there was a way to see which components were still on. We have some situations where I forget that some components are turned on. We forget some components are on, and we only see that these components are on when we see the bill at the end of the month.
It would also be better if AWS had specialized firewalls or integrations with leading products. For example, a specialized firewall with content filtering. We were looking for some firewall tools, and we saw that AWS doesn't have any specialized firewall tools in its services portfolio. So, we are looking for other tools like FortKnox, Forcepoint, and Check Point because we didn't find the solutions in AWS services.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Amazon AWS for about three years.
What other advice do I have?
On a scale from one to ten, I would give Amazon AWS a nine.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Gerente regional de tecnologÃa at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Scales well and expands easily and offers good configuration
Pros and Cons
- "The scalability of the product is the solution's most valuable feature."
- "We have been very, very happy with the capabilities we have been able to experience so far."
- "The technical support should be better than what is on offer right now."
- "The support could be better. It's an aspect of the solution that isn't as good as everything else."
What is our primary use case?
We are running everything on the cloud. That's our primary use case. All the servers we are using are on AWS. The only thing we have on SAP's cloud is the analytics part. Everything else is running on AWS.
What is most valuable?
The scalability of the product is the solution's most valuable feature. It expands very, very easily.
I don't have any complaints about the configuration capabilities or the interface.
The pricing seems to be good.
What needs improvement?
The technical support should be better than what is on offer right now.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution for a while now. It's been about four years in total, from what I recall.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution scales very well. If a company needs to expand it, it's very easy to do. It's one of the solution's most striking features.
How are customer service and technical support?
The support could be better. It's an aspect of the solution that isn't as good as everything else. We aren't satisfied. They need to be more helpful and responsive.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We also use SAP. In terms of SAP, I'm running all my servers on this IP at this moment. We have our development, our quality, and also production sites on it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We can't complain about the pricing. So far, it doesn't seem to be too expensive.
What other advice do I have?
We are a customer and an end-user. We don't have a business relationship with Amazon.
Overall, I would rate the solution at a nine out of ten overall. We've been very, very happy with the capabilities we've been able to experience so far.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
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DevOps Engineer at Apptegy
Good backup of CRM data of SalesForce
Pros and Cons
- "I use Amazon AWS for backing up our data from the customer relationship management solution of SalesForce."
- "As far as the automation is concerned, the backups should be scaled."
- "The solution should be made friendlier to use. As far as the automation is concerned, the backups should be scaled."
What is our primary use case?
I use Amazon AWS for backing up our data from the customer relationship management solution of SalesForce. For the moment, we have not made use of it for the restoration of any routes or data that is involved.
What needs improvement?
The solution should me made friendlier to use.
As far as the automation is concerned, the backups should be scaled.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing of Amazon is higher than that of SalesForce. We thought that things would be cheaper when it comes to Mexico and that a connection would be made between the facilities and SalesForce.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Amazon AWS as a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
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Technical Content Writer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Regularly updated, plenty of features, and reliable
Pros and Cons
- "AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
- "AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of, and there are new features being added all the time."
- "The solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms."
- "The solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms."
What is our primary use case?
This solution can be used to set up a cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices, such as Agile. It can be on-premises or in the cloud.
What is most valuable?
AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time.
What needs improvement?
The solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for approximately eight years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have found the stability very good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
This solution is scalable.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have previously used Microsoft Azure DevOps and we prefer Amazon AWS.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We are currently paying for the solution on an annual basis.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend this solution to others.
I rate Amazon AWS a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
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