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Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jul 9, 2020
A reasonably-priced and stable platform for transitioning our customers from on-premises to the cloud
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is that it is simple."
  • "They can launch the Oracle service in Azure, and we expect that this should be possible in Amazon AWS as well."

What is our primary use case?

The primary use case of this solution is to migrate our customers into the cloud, integrating all of their applications.

In my previous organization, we moved some customers from on-premises to the cloud, and they are happy with the change.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is that it is simple. We don't use complex services for our small business customers.

What needs improvement?

When it was only Amazon AWS in the market, no one was concerned about the pricing. However, now that there are so many competitors, there is more comparison for cloud service providers. They should look into reducing the price of this solution to stay competitive. It would be a benefit.

The current trend is multi-cloud. They can launch the Oracle service in Azure, and we expect that this should be possible in Amazon AWS as well. 

I would like to see better integration between Oracle and AWS.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon AWS for two years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon AWS is stable and we have not faced any issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's a scalable solution.

How are customer service and support?

We have not used technical support. We provide that to our customers.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is easy. 

Deployment is not a problem for us because we have experience. For new people, they are a bit worried about new features, until they develop a routine.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The Oracle licensing is higher than it is with Amazon AWS.

What other advice do I have?

The deployment varies, as some of our customers would like the hybrid cloud while others want a public cloud.

I have recommended this product to our customers and will continue to do so.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. partner
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Consultant at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Real User
Jun 30, 2020
Feature-rich, stable, and it is easy to expand our service offering
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable features are load balancers, databases, and S3 buckets."
  • "There are some limitations for certain applications that happen regionally and it is an issue for us."

What is our primary use case?

We are a solution provider and we use this solution to host applications for our customers. Their use cases are related to legal and advisory matters.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features are load balancers, databases, and S3 buckets.

What needs improvement?

I have found some problems related to the database.

The price of this solution could be reduced to make it more competitive.

There are some limitations for certain applications that happen regionally and it is an issue for us. If we work with an application that is set up in New York, for example, then it has to be able to work in Pakistan.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon AWS for between six and eight months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have not experienced any issues in terms of stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability is not a problem. We are currently extending our use of Amazon AWS and have acquired a partnership with them. With this, we are creating a cloud department for which we will offer Amazon Web Services.

How are customer service and technical support?

I did not have to call technical support.

How was the initial setup?

Our deployment took between five and ten months.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I find that Amazon AWS is expensive.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I recently evaluated the Oracle Cloud Platform, and I find that Amazon is more expensive.

What other advice do I have?

My advice to anybody who is researching AWS is to consider their budget. If the budget is available then it is a good choice, whereas, for those who want to spend less, I would suggest using Oracle instead.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Associate Director at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jun 4, 2019
Helps us to provide clients with a cost-effective, end-to-end solution
Pros and Cons
  • "As a service vendor, we have helped clients to achieve faster "go to market" on their products, and have provided highly flexible cost-effective system management solutions."
  • "This solution would be improved with the inclusion of hybrid Kubernetes management."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case is an end-to-end cloud solution and design.

How has it helped my organization?

As a service vendor, we have helped clients to achieve faster "go to market" on their products, and have provided highly flexible cost-effective system management solutions.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features of this solution are Compute, Security, Database, Media, Management, and Governance.

What needs improvement?

This solution would be improved with the inclusion of hybrid Kubernetes management.

For how long have I used the solution?

Seven years.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Lead Cyber Security and Hybrid Cloud Engineer with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Apr 28, 2019
A secure solution for commercial data analytics and storage
Pros and Cons
  • "We have seen an improvement in our infrastructure, as the code makes it very easy to deploy quickly to AWS."
  • "An easier way to determine estimated costs quickly would be helpful."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case for this solution is commercial cloud computing, analytics, and storage.

How has it helped my organization?

We have seen an improvement in our infrastructure, as the code makes it very easy to deploy quickly to AWS.

What is most valuable?

The features that we have found most valuable are IAM, KMS, and Security Groups for customizable security. Cloud formation for well-defined blueprints is also useful.

What needs improvement?

An easier way to determine estimated costs quickly would be helpful.

For how long have I used the solution?

Three to five years.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Vendor Management | Business Development at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Feb 14, 2019
Optimizes our customer's TCO, They can scale up and out at any time.
Pros and Cons
  • "Their technical support is really good. I am very satisfied."
  • "There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend."

What is our primary use case?

I use this product for hosting business applications like SAP on the AWS infrastructure. We have some new customers in Egypt and out of Egypt. This solution is magnificent. 

How has it helped my organization?

In our company, Amazon provides us with a lot of help like training for our staff. They always support us with any service or any solution. The security updates is perfect. and also supports for customers.

What is most valuable?

There are many benefits to AWS. For our customers, it optimizes their TCO. In terms of  computing, they can scale up and out. 

What needs improvement?

There's not specific things for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process and features of the product and to enhancement the stability.

For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's stable enough. In terms of actual numbers, it's 99.99% stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability is really perfect. I can make any scale anytime, whether I scale out or scale up.

How are customer service and technical support?

Their technical support is really good. I am very satisfied.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Amazon is the leader in the public cloud categories, it has the largest market shares. I ask our customers why they're not using it. 

What other advice do I have?

I would rate this solution a 9.5 out of ten. It's the leader in the public cloud and a leader in the market. 

I would recommend it to any customer using another solution. I would offer it as an alternative to another similar solution like IBM, Google and Azure.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner.
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Cloud Expert | DevOps | Oracle Consultant at a tech services company
Consultant
Top 20Leaderboard
Jan 11, 2019
It provides full IaaS and PaaS for any company with a perfect price

What is our primary use case?

Hands-on experience with more than five implementation projects, working on different projects that are related to cloud with different vendors. AWS features exist to make your life easier.

How has it helped my organization?

AWS provides full IaaS and PaaS for any company with a perfect price, with features that exist in this vendor I don't see in any other vendor.

What is most valuable?

  • Lambda.
  • Alex development edge.
  • CloudFormation.

All of these features I've used heavily provide the best solution for any client.

What needs improvement?

  • I would like to see Lambda (code storage management), which means being able to increase our code storage limit through support.
  • Another example which is Simple Queue Service (SQS) event for Lambda: to be able to see support for SQS message events with Lambda.

For how long have I used the solution?

More than five years.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Regarding to my work i am dealing with different cloud vendor all the time, but i never switch one solution to another.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

AWS pricing Reasonable & affordable by any business size, Small, Medium or large. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

None

What other advice do I have?

None

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Koenig SolutionsIT Training and Certification for Professionals with 201-500 employees
User

Amazon Web Services is a very helpful platform because of its attractive interface that allows me to obtain and configure capacity information, with minimal friction, that perfectly suits our company. Moreover, it helps me to take complete control of my computer resources and helps to reduce the time required to obtain and to boot new servers, as well. Apart from this, it provides tools to be build-failure resilient applications and to isolate them from common failure scenarios, in a very efficient manner.

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Founder at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
Real User
Aug 7, 2018
Pay-as-you-go allows us to scale up as needed, giving us a lot of agility in our IT
Pros and Cons
  • "With the pay-as-you-go model, we don't have to predict future IT needs. We can just scale up as we want. That helps with a lot of agility in deploying stuff in our IT infrastructure."
  • "They release new solutions almost every quarter and you don't get that kind of innovation from an enterprise company."
  • "The AWS documentation is written in a way that is not very intuitive. That's an area they can improve."

What is our primary use case?

The primary use case is that we run all our IT on it. The performance has been okay so far.

How has it helped my organization?

With the pay-as-you-go model, we don't have to predict future IT needs. We can just scale up as we want. That helps with a lot of agility in deploying stuff in our IT infrastructure.

What is most valuable?

  • It's pay-as-you-go.
  • It has a breadth of solutions for databases, data mining, AI.
  • They release new solutions almost every quarter and you don't get that kind of innovation from an enterprise company.

What needs improvement?

The AWS documentation is written in a way that is not very intuitive. That's an area they can improve.

For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Stability is really good. We have not had downtime so far.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Ours is a new company and we decided to go with AWS right from the beginning.

The most important criterion when selecting a vendor is their ability to help us get started as soon as we can. From the time we decide to deploy something to the time when the application is deployed, we look at which vendor will help us reduce that time.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was straightforward.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I think the pricing becomes a problem as the IT organization grows. They need to give better pricing when companies grow.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We looked at all the cloud platforms. AWS had more breadth in the services they offered.

What other advice do I have?

Look for what is required to deploy the apps in your particular organization. For example, if it's AI-driven then probably Google is a better cloud to go after. If there are a lot of Microsoft applications or if developers or the IT staff were trained in Microsoft software, then Microsoft Azure is a better fit.

I would rate AWS an eight out of 10 because it helps companies get started fast.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
User
Aug 2, 2018
It offers durability, high availability, fault tolerance, and a high TCO benefit
Pros and Cons
  • "It offers durability, high availability, fault tolerance, and a high TCO benefit."
  • "AWS should provide even more support and engagement to accelerate the adoption of new services and features."

What is our primary use case?

IaaS, PaaS, and a wide range of AWS services, including Aurora Postgre.

We use this for two solutions that we provide to our clients.

  • Channel Management automation
  • Digital Lending Hub

How has it helped my organization?

We are an ISV. AWS helped us to dramatically transform our business model into a cloud based subscription service.

What is most valuable?

RDS (Relational database service), specifically Aurora. It offers durability, high availability, fault tolerance, and a high TCO benefit.

What needs improvement?

The rate of new services and features released by AWS has dramatically accelerated. AWS should provide even more support and engagement to accelerate adoption.

For how long have I used the solution?

More than five years.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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