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Lead Cyber Security and Hybrid Cloud Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Real User
A secure solution for commercial data analytics and storage
Pros and Cons
  • "We have seen an improvement in our infrastructure, as the code makes it very easy to deploy quickly to AWS."
  • "An easier way to determine estimated costs quickly would be helpful."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case for this solution is commercial cloud computing, analytics, and storage.

How has it helped my organization?

We have seen an improvement in our infrastructure, as the code makes it very easy to deploy quickly to AWS.

What is most valuable?

The features that we have found most valuable are IAM, KMS, and Security Groups for customizable security. Cloud formation for well-defined blueprints is also useful.

What needs improvement?

An easier way to determine estimated costs quickly would be helpful.

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For how long have I used the solution?

Three to five years.
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AGM, Enterprise Solutions at Omgea Exim Ltd
MSP
Top 10
A highly scalable solution that helps organizations to move their applications to a containerized platform
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution also helps organizations to move applications to a containerized platform."
  • "Instead of using some third-party solutions, Amazon should include them as part of its offering."

What is most valuable?

The introduction of the ITD pipeline makes the development and operation cycle easier for the organization.

The solution also helps organizations to move applications to a containerized platform.

What needs improvement?

Instead of using some third-party solutions, Amazon should include them as part of its offering.

Currently, we are using some third-party services for various purposes. Amazon can acquire those open-source products and provide them with managed services.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon AWS for about six years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate Amazon AWS an eight out of ten for stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution's scalability is always high, and the customer can seamlessly scale up the solution. I rate Amazon AWS an eight out of ten for scalability.

How are customer service and support?

The solution’s technical support is good.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The solution’s initial setup is very easy. Amazon AWS is the easiest cloud platform to learn and deal with compared to any other provider.

I rate Amazon AWS a nine out of ten for ease of initial setup.

What about the implementation team?

Any service built on AWS is very easy and quick to deploy and does not take much time. Within 10 to 15 minutes, you can bring a server up and launch a website.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing of Amazon AWS is high compared to any other cloud provider.

What other advice do I have?

Amazon AWS was deployed on the cloud in my organization.

Overall, I rate Amazon AWS an eight out of ten.

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Software Developer at Generate Impact
Real User
Great documentation with an excellent community and a reasonable pricing structure
Pros and Cons
  • "The pricing model is good. It's pay-as-you-go."
  • "It would be ideal if they could provide automatic health reports. That way, I would be able to understand at a glance the state of my services at any given time."

What is our primary use case?

I use the solution for deploying some applications that use cloud computing.

What is most valuable?

It offers a lot of tools, which we leverage. 

At the moment I'm using Lambda service and also AC2 machines - as a platform as a service and infrastructure as a service.

The pricing model is good. It's pay-as-you-go. You only pay for what you use. 

The solution offers a lot of very helpful documentation. There's also a great community that surrounds it that is quite helpful if you have questions or want to learn something. 

What needs improvement?

Personally, I need to improve myself in terms of the knowledge I have around the product. My goal is to maybe get certified in order to understand it better. It would be helpful if they would be able to provide me with more certification information. 

It's a good platform. I don't have any issues with it at the moment. 

It would be ideal if they could provide automatic health reports. That way, I would be able to understand at a glance the state of my services at any given time. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution for three or four years at this point. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable. We have many items deployed in AWS and we haven't had any issues. there are no bugs or glitches. It's problem-free.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

AWS provides us with a lot of tools for deploying automatically when we are working, for example, in a new feature. We have options for automatic deployments and don't have issues with size.

How are customer service and support?

There's a lot of great documentation and community support. I'm learning a lot and can find any answers I need there. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I'm working with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Computing right now.

How was the initial setup?

I work with my customer's solutions and I deploy into AWS to provide the end product for my customers. I don't directly deal with AWS implementations themselves. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is good and it's set up as a pay-as-you-go. It's not overly expensive. 

What other advice do I have?

I'm just a customer and an end-user.

I'd highly recommend the solution to other users. It's one of the best cloud options out there right now. 

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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CTO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Plenty of connectors, high performance, and reliable
Pros and Cons
  • "Amazon is a really good solution with high performance. They offer more connectors than some of their competitors, such as Microsoft Azure."
  • "Amazon AWS could improve by being more secure and adding more features."

What is our primary use case?

I was using Amazon AWS in the medical market in my previous employment.

What is most valuable?

Amazon is a really good solution with high performance. They offer more connectors than some of their competitors, such as Microsoft Azure.

What needs improvement?

Amazon AWS could improve by being more secure and adding more features.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately six years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon AWS in my experience has been more stable than Microsoft Azure.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately 50 customers that are using the solution.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We have moved from Amazon AWS to Microsoft Azure. I have found that both solutions perform very well. The main reason we switched was to allow us to manage where the data was to be stored. We wanted a data storage solution in France which most of our customers were requesting. Two years ago, Amazon did not have any solution to provide any storage in France. 

How was the initial setup?

The level of difficulty for the installation of Amazon AWS is similar to Microsoft Azure. They are very difficult.

What about the implementation team?

We have a five-person team of DevOps and architects that do the implementation and maintenance of the solution.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

If I was going to compare the cost of Amazon AWS to Microsoft Azure, they are approximately the same.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Amazon AWS an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Chef manager at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Helpful technical support, easy setup, and highly stable
Pros and Cons
  • "The initial setup is not difficult and it did not take us more than one day."
  • "The solution could improve by being more secure."

What is our primary use case?

We have migrated all of our on-premise production environments to the Amazon AWS cloud and we use many AWS services.

What needs improvement?

The solution could improve by being more secure.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately six months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon AWS has proven itself as the market leader in the cloud solution environment and is highly stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable.

All of our production environment is hosted on Amazon AWS and we have approximately 12,000 users that use it.

How are customer service and technical support?

We have enterprise-level support that is very good from the AWS team.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We use other solutions, such as Microsoft Azure for UID and Google Cloud services for DCP.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is not difficult and it did not take us more than one day.

What about the implementation team?

We have a managed service provider that helped us with the implementation of the solution.

We have a 60 person team that manages our data operations and infrastructure. The team consists of many levels, such as system engineers, architects, and managers.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We have a monthly subscription for Amazon AWS.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Amazon AWS an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Senior Solutions Specialist (Network & Security) at Ooredoo Qatar
Real User
Economical, with good performance and good support
Pros and Cons
  • "It is easy to use."
  • "The pricing is reasonable but there is always room to be better."

What is our primary use case?

We use Amazon AWS for website hosting, application hosting, and serverless computing.

What is most valuable?

Everything is good. 

It is easy to use.

The performance is good.

It's also very economical.

What needs improvement?

The pricing is reasonable but there is always room to be better. 

If it was offered for free, it would be better.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon AWS for three years.

We are using the latest version.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have 20 people in our organization who are using Amazon AWS.

How are customer service and technical support?

Technical support is okay.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I use Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud as well.

How was the initial setup?

It's a cloud-based solution, there is no installation.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price is quite reasonable.

With Amazon AWS, you pay as you go.

What other advice do I have?

Definitely, I would recommend this solution to others.

I would rate Amazon AWS a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Vice President - Services at Locuz Enterprise Solutions Ltd
Vendor
Scalable as per the needs, quite stable, and priced based on the actual consumption of resources
Pros and Cons
  • "It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
  • "They're really good on the business computing side, but there are other services where they can do really well. They can improve the data analytics platform and the data warehousing platform."

What is our primary use case?

We are using it for hosting some of our workloads. We offer managed services for our customers, mostly in the space of security in managed IT services, and some of these workloads are hosted on AWS.

What is most valuable?

It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required.

Another thing that really attracts us is the pricing, which is based on the actual consumption of resources, and that's what really helps us.

What needs improvement?

They're really good on the business computing side, but there are other services where they can do really well. They can improve the data analytics platform and the data warehousing platform.

Its pricing can be simplified a little bit more.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for more than three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is quite stable. We did not find any challenge in the reliability of the platform.

How are customer service and technical support?

We do contact their tech support, and we get the help whenever it is required. We are pretty much satisfied with them.

How was the initial setup?

It was not too complex. We are very straightforward and not too complex in terms of our infrastructure.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Its pricing can be simplified a little bit more. Even though they have been reducing it, I still believe they can do better as compared to GCP, Google Cloud.

What other advice do I have?

We advise people to go on AWS. We also do a readiness assessment for our customers. We do a kind of a TCO analysis for our customers, and depending on the use case, workload, and pricing model, we advise our customers. We do it for AWS, Azure, and GCP. I would expect customers to do the same thing. They should do a proper analysis because it depends on what workloads they want to move to the cloud. Based on that, they should select a hyperscaler.

I would rate Amazon AWS an eight out of 10.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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reviewer1261494 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Consultant
A cloud computing platform that's easy to use, but the price could be better
Pros and Cons
  • "I like that it's easy to use."
  • "They could lower the cost. The setup could also be easier."

What is our primary use case?

We use AWS for product development, testing, and storage management.

How has it helped my organization?

AWS has improved our organization by driving efficiency in our product development cycles.

What is most valuable?

I like that it's easy to use.

What needs improvement?

They could lower the cost. The setup could also be easier.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using Amazon AWS for about five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

AWS is fairly stable. There are always some issues, but not much.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

AWS scales fine most of the time. It's just expensive.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We've used Azure, we've used Google Cloud, we've used DigitalOcean, and we used SoftLayer. We're primarily using AWS because 75% or 80% of people use AWS, and we want our product to run optimized on AWS.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is relative. It's easier than others, but it could always be easier.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

It's expensive. It costs you an arm and a leg. It's just about your expertise to do it on-prem versus in the cloud. I think it's more cost-effective to do it on-prem, but not everybody has a lab or the capital equipment budget to staff a lab. So, they are defaulting to using a service.

That's the trade-off. If you're going to scale, most of the time, people are going to build it in-house. To get development started and to get things moving quickly, the cloud providers offer a valuable service. The biggest charge is for storage, moving data back and forth, and the ingress and egress charges.

What other advice do I have?

I would tell potential users that there's a learning curve, but it definitely works.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Amazon AWS a solid seven.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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