Amazon AWS Reviews

- Amazon Web Services offer a very low pricing option based on usage, with no up-front payment. - Amazon Web Services can be used as a Content delivery network, as Amazon has multiple data hosting centers spread across the globe. - Amazon Web Services is a highly secure durable technology platform, for hosting all your applications over the cloud. The AWS storage facility is very scalable and grows and shrinks as per your needs. You only pay for the exact usage and not more. - AWS is a not dependent on any programming language or any kind of operating system platform. You are free to choose the development platform or programming model that is suitable for your application and business. You can also decide what services you want to use and how to use them. This takes the burden of focusing on infrastructure off your shoulders. - There’s less IT infrastructure staff to manage.

- Though not very often, Amazon services are known to go down once in a while. If you are running highly intensive businesses off Amazon, you might end up losing a big chunk of your revenue due to AWS break downs. You might have to think of alternative backup options as well. - The other thing to keep in mind is the cost factor. Though the prices are not sky high, if you are a startup then you have to answer the big question: Is cloud comparatively a cheaper option or is it more expensive? - Initial learning curve, sometimes takes a bit of time and deters quite a lot of people from doing their business with AWS, so make sure you spend sometime to ramp up with AWS.

A good cloud service that takes care of all the back end infrastructure management and administration work off your hands. The pay-as-you-go option is very suitable for most of the organizations. Prices are a bit higher when compared to hosting your service over your own hardware. However, you get the benefits of having your application over a cloud. The auto-scale feature is something worth the money, as you don't have to worry about deploying more servers when there is a high demand during peak times.

Few things I admire about this whole AWS service by Amazon are 1) Provides persistent block storage volumes 2) Excellent load balancing features for servers 3) Excellent support on all types of relational databases, for example Oracle etc. 4) Awesome repository of operating systems from Ubuntu, Slackware, Microsoft Servers etc. 5) The virtual private cloud feature is an amazing add on for the service

Few cons of the AWS platform are- 1) Lack of .NET support 2) A bit costlier than Microsoft Azure based on computer per hour and outbound bandwidth. 3) Unavailability of middleware caching, integration and identity management.

One of the first and extremely professional services launched for the cloud platform is the advent of Amazon AWS. The bundle of services provided by them such as CloudFront, CloudWatch, EC2, Simple Storage service etc undoubtedly cover all the aspects needed by the developers and system administrators to match infrastructure and scalability issues for the growing demands.

Quick to set up, dynamic pricing, very good support.

Pricy for dedicated servers. The base package for fast bandwidth was more than I anticipated paying.

They have a package where you pay an upfront cost and get locked in for a year, but the monthly cost (or per-hour cost) is much lower. Try this out if you know you'll be with them for at least a year.

AWS has a wide selection of technologies for various use cases. 

The whole solution is well designed and AWS has decent documentation, which is not to be taken for granted. I've also found that AWS is easy to use.

I have been using AWS for about a year.

We have no problems with the stability. The issue we've had is that the deployment of services took a bit long in some cases. 

We haven't deployed anything where scalability was an issue so far.

Deploying AWS solutions is reasonably straightforward. Of course, with all these technologies, you have to understand their vocabulary and like the topology of the thing that they are offering. Implementing AWS IAM was a bit complex. Other than that, AWS stands out for usability.

AWS is a cloud service, so it's pay-as-you-go.  Some of the storage services could be cheaper.

I rate AWS eight out of 10. It's well designed and well documented. Overall, AWS is a good public cloud platform.  Before signing up for AWS, it's probably a good idea to think about pricing because some of their services can be obtained elsewhere for a better price.

I am the leader of a team that runs cloud operations for our clients. We work with AWS on a daily basis using it for synthetic and real use monitoring. Our company is partnered with AWS.

Since AWS came a bit later to the market, they are always improving and upgrading their platform.

They do not yet have a complete solution for APM monitoring. But this, along with real user monitoring, is something that they are actively working on improving.

I have been using AWS for about a year. 

The solution is very stable.

The solution is easily scalable.

My team and I have not needed to contact support.

In general, the initial setup was quite easy.

I would rate this product a seven out of ten.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Our primary use case for Amazon AWS is for disaster recovery.

The interface of the solution is good.

I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year.

Amazon AWS is a stable solution.

We have three customers using this solution.

The setup was straightforward.

The solution is on a subscription-based model, and it is pay-as-you-go. The price could be cheaper.

Amazon AWS is a good solution.

I rate Amazon AWS a nine out of ten.

Public Cloud

We had previously been working on a local office server. Our local server wasn't performing well, so we switched to the AWS cloud service. We want to provide smooth service from our application to our end-users.

We first deployed Amazon ASW five or six months ago.

AWS is stable. 

AWS could be more scalable. We have two versions of our product: desktop and cloud. And there are approximately 100 to 200 users there. 

We get our first-line support from our in-house support, and they deal with Amazon support.

I rate Amazon AWS eight out of 10