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Amazon AWS vs Knack 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
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
260
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (2nd), PaaS Clouds (2nd)
Knack
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Rapid Application Development Software (35th), No-Code Development Platforms (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Amazon AWS and Knack aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Amazon AWS is designed for Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) and holds a mindshare of 15.0%, up 13.7% compared to last year.
Knack, on the other hand, focuses on Rapid Application Development Software, holds 1.0% mindshare, up 0.4% since last year.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon AWS15.0%
Microsoft Azure8.7%
Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode)7.6%
Other68.7%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
Rapid Application Development Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Knack1.0%
Microsoft Power Apps7.8%
Oracle Application Express (APEX)4.9%
Other86.3%
Rapid Application Development Software
 

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.
it_user1460940 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at ITdirector.ie
Flexible and granular security options, good filtering, and the pricing model is cost-effective
The vendor does a really poor job of marketing this software because it should be more popular. This is something that I have pointed out to them. It's a super piece of software, but very few people are aware of it. I am an EX-IT director and I've worked in big systems, and I'm amazed this solution isn't more popular. The "native" integration with other products could be improved. The user interface for the systems that you build can use some improvement because as it is now, you may have to use HTML and CSS to make it look more modern or to match a clients existing look. The documentation is amazing, although they don't do videos and their YouTube channel is very poor. They could create some training videos.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Amazon AWS is a stable solution, it is far more stable than some others."
"AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of, and there are new features being added all the time."
"I would recommend this solution to others who are considering using it; it's very scalable and serverless, and we are only charged for the functions that we use, including Lambda, which is a nice feature, in my opinion."
"The cost of Amazon AWS is similar to Azure and has the same value, and it is a user friendly solution."
"I am very impressed by the solution's stability."
"Amazon offers different support plans; we have enterprise support and they generally get back to us within half an hour, with a very fast escalation process and a generally high level of support because they know that there is a critical platform involved."
"I especially like the flexibility and scalability of the solution."
"Great scalability."
"Overall, I am a big fan of Knack."
"The security is the most valuable feature, in particular, the way I can give different access to different areas to different people, so you can really fine-tune access for different users."
 

Cons

"It would be better if there was a way to see which components were still on. We have some situations where I forget that some components are turned on. We forget some components are on, and we only see that these components are on when we see the bill at the end of the month. It would also be better if AWS had specialized firewalls or integrations with leading products. For example, a specialized firewall with content filtering. We were looking for some firewall tools, and we saw that AWS doesn't have any specialized firewall tools in its services portfolio. So, we are looking for other tools like FortKnox, Forcepoint, and Check Point because we didn't find the solutions in AWS services."
"The pricing could be better. It's a bit expensive."
"The pricing of AWS is very unclear; they make it quite confusing, and sometimes there are hidden charges."
"It has the technical support features, but they need to be improved. It has lots of users, but they need to be managed accordingly."
"I also use Google Cloud GCP and AWS cannot directly use the Azure EC2 consult. They could add that feature. Direct connection to the EC2 console server would be very useful."
"Price can always be cheaper."
"The response time of technical support could be better. It is not so good."
"Yes, the initial setup is not so straightforward. The concept changes and you will need to understand this."
"The user interface for the systems that you build can use some improvement because as it is now, you have to do a lot of HTML and CSS to make it look modern."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is very expensive, you have to be very cautious."
"One of the best-kept ways to reduce costs is to develop it on serverless technologies with AWS Lambda, SNS, DynamoDB, and S3."
"This solution offers good pricing."
"The pricing is fair."
"Maintain a good budget, plan the consumption"
"The solution's pricing depends on your traffic since they charge you based on the traffic, not the servers. The price can go into many, many thousands depending on the traffic."
"The license for Amazon AWS is expensive. I am currently using the free version."
"AWS IaaS is a very generic service, which is extremely overpriced.​"
"This product has really good value, as it doesn't have a per-user cost, there's a flat fee."
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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
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Construction Company
12%
University
12%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business131
Midsize Enterprise48
Large Enterprise120
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