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Amazon AWS vs Amazon Bedrock comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 16, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.2
Amazon AWS offers cost-effective, scalable solutions with pay-as-you-go pricing, enabling quick deployment and significant financial benefits.
Sentiment score
4.1
Amazon Bedrock offers cost-efficiency and accessibility, enabling affordable experimentation with large models while optimizing resources with pay-per-use.
Amazon Bedrock enabled the use of huge models and the democratization of their use at comparatively low cost, if we host these models in the company.
Data Scientist Team Lead at Venarisecurity
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Amazon AWS customer service is highly effective and responsive, with knowledgeable support and comprehensive documentation, enhancing user satisfaction.
Sentiment score
5.7
Amazon Bedrock support is highly rated for quick, effective help, especially in AI integration and ecosystem queries.
Reaching out to them and talking is different from receiving a complete solution to your problem.
Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
We have a direct line to Amazon AWS, with premium support and AWS members located within the company.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet
Amazon AWS has good technical engineers available, making their customer service reliable.
Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are experiencing the fastest time ever to get things done with AI integrating into our work, regardless of where we are.
Diretor at Hat Thinking
So, you always have to bridge the gap by presenting scenarios, getting recommendations, and testing or validating those assumptions.
Advisory Board Member at AllmaGen, Inc.
My experience with the technical support has been very good because they resolved my billing issue within a day.
Cloud Architect at Acmegrade
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Amazon AWS offers exceptional scalability, enabling effortless resource expansion and efficient scaling to support diverse user needs globally.
Sentiment score
5.6
Amazon Bedrock excels in scalability and integration but faces challenges and costs at hyperscale, with potential for improvement.
The scalability of Amazon AWS is excellent.
Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Amazon AWS provides strong scalability features, but the scaling process could be made more straightforward.
Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
When setting up resources, the maximum limit can go high or low, at which time instances are increased, which helps maintain latency standards.
Architect at ebzss
It is scalable on a truly global basis.
Advisory Board Member at AllmaGen, Inc.
Amazon Bedrock is quite highly scalable, but there are some limitations they impose on the accounts, which could be an area for improvement.
Solutions Architect & PMO at AS TV Play Baltics/TV3 Group
It scales well with AWS Lambda, AWS Transcribe, and Polly.
Senior Software Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Amazon AWS is highly reliable, with strong performance and minimal outages, earning high satisfaction for robustness and stability.
Sentiment score
7.2
Amazon Bedrock excels in stability and reliability, effectively handling scalability and security with consistently positive user experiences.
If I am spinning up any managed service from the console, sometimes it fails to start up, and there will be no information about why it failed.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet
The stability of Amazon Bedrock is good as I have not faced any issues.
Cloud Architect at Acmegrade
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon AWS users seek better cost management, integration, user interfaces, security, performance, support, and simplified billing and setup processes.
Amazon Bedrock needs improved documentation, pricing, generative AI, security, interface, integration, availability, and transparent pricing for competitiveness.
Amazon AWS could improve its user interface to make it more user-friendly, especially for people who are not highly technical.
Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
When using scripts for APIs to fetch data, they don't match the data exactly with the request.
Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
If I create a Glue job, that will create S3 buckets and other resources that have cost implications, but once I clean up a Glue job, it does not delete the other accessory resources.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet
In AgenTek AI business, the only foundation models we can rely on for scaling now are the Cloud 3.5 models like Haiku and SONNET, designed for low latency and complex AI business use cases.
Advisory Board Member at AllmaGen, Inc.
For companies in general, the main pain point or main issue related to Amazon Bedrock is security because they are not confident that all information is hidden by this kind of architecture.
Diretor at Hat Thinking
If AWS provided methods, like five or six prompts that yield specific results, it would ease development.
Senior Software Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

Amazon AWS offers flexible pricing with cost-effectiveness, but managing expenses can be complex compared to Azure or GCP.
Amazon Bedrock offers flexible, competitive pricing but may incur high costs for extensive data use or enterprise features.
After three to four years, if you are not managing it correctly, you will be paying more than an on-premise solution, which applies to all cloud providers, so you must regularly maintain and manage for efficiency.
Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Currently, Amazon AWS is known to be on the higher price range because popular and in-demand services often come at a premium.
Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our cost is incredibly low, operating for a few hundred dollars a month in production.
Advisory Board Member at AllmaGen, Inc.
One customer paid around $100 to $200 per month, which was significant given their overall infrastructure costs.
Assistant Manager - Sales at Velocis Systems
The pricing and licensing of Amazon Bedrock are quite flexible.
Solutions Architect & PMO at AS TV Play Baltics/TV3 Group
 

Valuable Features

Amazon AWS provides scalable compute, flexible pricing, high security, and integration, ideal for building efficient applications with minimal infrastructure.
Amazon Bedrock provides secure, customizable AI with easy integration, scalable models, and cost-efficient usage for rapid development and trust.
Amazon AWS provides IAM features for user access management as well as KMS through key management service with private and public key encryption methodology.
Architect at ebzss
Amazon AWS offers flexibility and scalability.
Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
One aspect I appreciate in Amazon AWS is their support team, which is excellent.
Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It has improved operational costs and efficiency significantly, saving money and enhancing the quality of operations.
Solutions Architect & PMO at AS TV Play Baltics/TV3 Group
The valuable features that have helped in leveraging generative AI for operational efficiency improvements include customization capabilities, various types of models suitable for specific use cases, and the integration of knowledge bases.
Cloud Architect at Acmegrade
The ability to make changes in the foundational model is valuable since different customers have specific needs, allowing customization.
Assistant Manager - Sales at Velocis Systems
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon AWS
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
258
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (2nd)
Amazon Bedrock
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
AI Infrastructure (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Amazon AWS is 16.2%, up from 13.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Amazon Bedrock is 1.9%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon AWS16.2%
Amazon Bedrock1.9%
Other81.9%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Asif  Meem - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet
Managed cloud services have helped accelerate experiments with flexible configuration options
Sometimes the costs associated with spinning up a service, especially managed services, have implications. For example, if I create a Glue job, that will create S3 buckets and other resources that have cost implications, but once I clean up a Glue job, it does not delete the other accessory resources. Sometimes, I have to go hunting for what resources Amazon AWS might have provisioned and how it is costing behind the scenes. It can be complex depending on your level of expertise. It is not as easy to get started, especially when it comes to secure practices. Amazon AWS is more hands-on than other platforms.
RodrigoBassani - PeerSpot reviewer
Diretor at Hat Thinking
Advanced integration and flexible architecture drive efficient business solutions
I have to gain more maturity to provide some improvements to Amazon Bedrock. I have a lot to do with the environment they already provided. For example, they are able to connect to any LLM solution such as Llama, Meta, Gemini, or ChatGPT. It is open; you just choose your favorite LLM solution, and you can integrate it into Amazon Bedrock. We have a lot of possibilities to do this integration at this moment; we just need to work on it, create more maturity, and then we can provide some enhancements that we can see on the solution as a whole. For companies in general, the main pain point or main issue related to Amazon Bedrock is security because they are not confident that all information is hidden by this kind of architecture. They wonder if they are providing some company information that can run away, and I think that is the challenge we have now. We need to find ways to work on it and make our clients' data secure. They are looking for that to guarantee that this is a great solution for companies that is also secure.
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Comparison Review

it_user8586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Aug 14, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
6%
Computer Software Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business131
Midsize Enterprise48
Large Enterprise114
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

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How is SAP Cloud Platform different than Amazon AWS?
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Looking to compare Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, and Microsoft Azure
We like Google Firebase hosting and authentication and also the excellent cloud functionality. Our team found the flexibility of handling and dealing with the database through EDL to be very useful...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Bedrock?
The price of invoking the model is considerably better compared to hosting the model with our local resources. This is an advantage for Amazon Bedrock.
What needs improvement with Amazon Bedrock?
Currently, I do not have any negative points in mind about Amazon Bedrock because I think Amazon Bedrock and other services are good. We have to use OpenSearch as well. We have not implemented RAG ...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Bedrock?
I am currently working on Amazon Bedrock Agent Core. We have created a data pipeline where we are using Amazon Bedrock Agent Core primarily for transformation. We use the agent for custom rules, tr...
 

Also Known As

Amazon Web Services, AWS
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Pinterest, General Electric, Pfizer, Netflix, and Nasdaq.
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