Associate Director - Technical at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
MSP
Top 10
Dec 11, 2024
The pricing is very good because it is low and there is no management cost. You do not need to hire any system administrator to manage your Active Directory.
Head of IT/Cloud Infrastructure Architect at Crown Interactive Limited
Real User
Dec 28, 2021
AWS' pricing is fair, and costs can be cut if you look carefully at when you're using it. They accept upfront and non-upfront payments, with upfront payments being lower. However, it can be a little difficult to figure out pricing if you're working with an exchange rate.
Senior Infrastructure Reliability Engineer - (Remote) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Dec 7, 2021
The pricing depends because with AWS there are two types of directory objects: 30,000 and 500,000. It varies. AWS provides the pricing calculators so we can get an estimate from there as per the company requirement of how many users and objects that we need to create. So we can go to that portal, put in the data, and get the quotation. There are no extra licensing fees. It's all included.
Powershell IT Admin Cert at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Nov 2, 2021
As you pay monthly, I'd say the toughest part is getting management to understand the differences in cost. When they start seeing that monthly cost, they start to freak out. You have to remind them that they didn't put out millions for the CapEx cost. It's harder for them to grasp the cost. It's pretty pricey. There's no doubt about it. However, in enclosed containerized instances in, for example, an HPE GreenLake framework with the frame internalized inside of the client environment, it's not nearly as expensive. The pricing is convoluted. I would prefer it if all cloud solutions come up with better modeling. I know it's difficult to come up with an all-in-one cost, mainly due to the variance in the environments. I understand that. However, they need to centralize their cost a whole lot more.
AWS Directory Service lets you run Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as a managed service. AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also referred to as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, is powered by Windows Server 2012 R2. When you select and launch this directory type, it is created as a highly available pair of domain controllers connected to your virtual private cloud (VPC). The domain controllers run in different Availability Zones in a region of your choice. Host monitoring and...
The pricing is very good because it is low and there is no management cost. You do not need to hire any system administrator to manage your Active Directory.
The solution is priced reasonably.
We pay an annual subscription fee.
It is important to note that there are no hidden fees following initial purchase.
AWS' pricing is fair, and costs can be cut if you look carefully at when you're using it. They accept upfront and non-upfront payments, with upfront payments being lower. However, it can be a little difficult to figure out pricing if you're working with an exchange rate.
The pricing depends because with AWS there are two types of directory objects: 30,000 and 500,000. It varies. AWS provides the pricing calculators so we can get an estimate from there as per the company requirement of how many users and objects that we need to create. So we can go to that portal, put in the data, and get the quotation. There are no extra licensing fees. It's all included.
As you pay monthly, I'd say the toughest part is getting management to understand the differences in cost. When they start seeing that monthly cost, they start to freak out. You have to remind them that they didn't put out millions for the CapEx cost. It's harder for them to grasp the cost. It's pretty pricey. There's no doubt about it. However, in enclosed containerized instances in, for example, an HPE GreenLake framework with the frame internalized inside of the client environment, it's not nearly as expensive. The pricing is convoluted. I would prefer it if all cloud solutions come up with better modeling. I know it's difficult to come up with an all-in-one cost, mainly due to the variance in the environments. I understand that. However, they need to centralize their cost a whole lot more.
The pricing is reasonable.