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Amazon AWS vs F5 Volterra comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Amazon AWS
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
260
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (2nd)
F5 Volterra
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
16th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Amazon AWS is 14.3%, down from 15.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of F5 Volterra is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon AWS14.3%
F5 Volterra0.4%
Other85.3%
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.
Ossama ElGedawy - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Senior Manager at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Has integrated protection with effective mitigation of DDoS attacks
The valuable features include its API Security, anti-bot protection, and web application firewall. It has greatly improved the security posture of my applications, web applications, and also effectively mitigates DDoS attacks. Before implementing the DDoS protection on F5 Volterra, there were about three successful DDoS incidents. Afterward, I did not experience a single incident for eight months.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I would recommend AWS to other interested companies."
"One of the most valuable things about it, besides the stability, is that you can forget about infrastructure because you're just doing it on AWS."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"Amazon AWS has a better portfolio. They have an impressive technology and service portfolio."
"Deploying to the elastic cloud is much easier now with AWS."
"Amazon AWS has proven itself as the market leader in the cloud solution environment and is highly stable."
"They release new solutions almost every quarter and you don't get that kind of innovation from an enterprise company."
"Technical support is customer-friendly and knowledgeable."
"The valuable features include its anti-PDUs, anti-bot protection, and web application firewall."
"It has greatly improved the security posture of my applications, web applications, and also effectively mitigates DDoS attacks."
 

Cons

"AWS support could be better. It could be faster and straightforward."
"Billing for cloud services can be difficult at times."
"Some customers can become overwhelmed by the range of services, so training and assistance from specialized third-parties is strongly recommended."
"The price could be better."
"There was some new learning in terms of IOPS on the EBS storage. The concept of burstable IOPS was new and we did have a few outages when we ran out of IOPS."
"Viewing a build could also be improved. It's not easy to follow up on your consumption and see how much you're paying and how much you will be paying."
"The IEM (Infrastructure Event Management) appears to be complicated, specifically cross-account resource permissions."
"This solution could be improved by a better licensing model, especially for third-party software. Amazon AWS could also potentially be improved by more free storage, but I think that it's okay when compared to competitors' products."
"The reporting needs improvement in Volterra. I do not have many options to create a customized report."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It could be cheaper, and Amazon could also be more transparent with its pricing. I would first expect any product vendor to give me the utmost transparency on pricing information. There shouldn't be any hidden costs. Their service offerings have a bit of segmentation, and they focus more on SMBs. They brought them onto the cloud and encouraged them to use solutions on the cloud. But strategically, they should probably improve that and offer some credits."
"Amazon AWS could have more options and transparency in its pricing model. You need in-depth knowledge to adopt AWS. So someone without that knowledge base might not understand all of the costs associated with AWS."
"The solution should improve the pricing."
"Monthly licensing fee."
"The pricing depends on the workload. For example, if your workload involves Windows technologies, AWS may not be the most cost-effective option. In that case, you might be better off with Azure."
"The license for Amazon AWS is expensive. I am currently using the free version."
"We have a monthly subscription for Amazon AWS."
"I find that Amazon AWS is expensive."
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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
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
7%
No data available
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business131
Midsize Enterprise48
Large Enterprise120
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

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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 needs improvement with F5 Volterra?
The reporting needs improvement in Volterra. I do not have many options to create a customized report.
What is your primary use case for F5 Volterra?
I am hosting about twenty applications. They are behind F5, Volterra.
 

Also Known As

Amazon Web Services, AWS
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Sample Customers

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