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Assistant Manager at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Useful trusted advisor tool, well-written documentation, but technical support could be faster
Pros and Cons
  • "I have found the trusted advisor tool works well, we are using it to get some insight into the security status and the processing of the applications."
  • "The technical support can take longer than expected sometimes. They could improve on this."

What is our primary use case?

We are using this solution for internet applications.

What is most valuable?

I have found the trusted advisor tool works well, we are using it to get some insight into the security status and the processing of the applications. Additionally, the portal for management has clear well-written documentation.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have not had any major issue with stability, it is quite stable.

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is good.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support can take longer than expected sometimes. They could improve on this.

How was the initial setup?

The initial installation was easy.

What about the implementation team?

We did the deployment ourselves.

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

The price of the solution is fair compared to competitors.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Amazon AWS a seven out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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IT Staff Manager at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Very reliable, fast to implement, and easy to scale based on the needs
Pros and Cons
  • "The capacity to grow dynamically based on our needs is most valuable. We can increase resources dynamically. It is also very reliable and fast to implement."
  • "Their support can be improved. In some cases, their support is not as proficient as it can be. They should be quicker at getting back."

What is our primary use case?

We used it for hosting our ERP and databases and the applications that we develop for working with our customers. We are using a lot of Amazon AWS services. It is a mixed environment, and we have a lot of components.

What is most valuable?

The capacity to grow dynamically based on our needs is most valuable. We can increase resources dynamically. It is also very reliable and fast to implement.

What needs improvement?

Their support can be improved. In some cases, their support is not as proficient as it can be. They should be quicker at getting back.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is scalable. It is very easy to scale if you need more resources. We have around 150 users of this solution in our company.

How are customer service and technical support?

They need to be faster.

How was the initial setup?

It was very easy and fast.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate Amazon AWS a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud
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Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Real User
Easy to use, stable, and scalable with a lot of services and integrations
Pros and Cons
  • "It is very easy to set up. It is also easy to use. It has a lot of services and integrations. We've been able to integrate whatever we need until now."
  • "Its subscription model or pricing model is too complex, which should be improved."

What is most valuable?

It is very easy to set up. It is also easy to use. 

It has a lot of services and integrations. We've been able to integrate whatever we need until now.

What needs improvement?

Its subscription model or pricing model is too complex, which should be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for three years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is stable. We have not seen any issues so far.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is scalable.

How are customer service and technical support?

We have interacted with them. They are good, and we've not had any issues with them.

How was the initial setup?

It is very easy to set up.

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

Its pricing model is too complex.

What other advice do I have?

I would advise others to do a test before going ahead and buying it. They should look at other cloud options as well. If you are going to use mostly Microsoft products, then go with Azure. For non-Microsoft products, go with AWS.

I would rate Amazon AWS an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Senior Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Consultant
Great platform to spin up servers in minutes; provides multiple tools for administrators; UI can be puzzling sometimes

Valuable Features

EBS, Availability Zones, VPC, Support for high I/O instances

Customer Service and Technical Support

Customer Service: Could be made much betterTechnical Support: Excellent

Initial Setup

Slightly complex because of the user interface which is not simple for first time users
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Partner at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
AWS: What are the key Amazon Web Services components?

Over the last couple of years, the popularity of the “cloud computing” has grown dramatically and along with it so has the dominance of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the market. Unfortunately, AWS doesn’t do a great job of explaining exactly what AWS is, how its pieces work together, or what typical use cases for its components may be. This post is an effort to address this by providing a whip around overview of the key AWS components and how they can be effectively used.

Great, so what is AWS? Generally speaking, Amazon Web Services is a loosely coupled collection of “cloud” infrastructure services that allows customers to “rent” computing resources. What this means is that using AWS, you as the client are able to flexibly provision various computing resources on a “pay as you go” pricing model. Expecting a huge traffic spike? AWS has you covered. Need to flexibly store between 1 GB or 100 GB of photos? AWS has you covered. Additionally, each of the components that makes up AWS is generally loosely coupled meaning that they can work independently or in concert with other AWS resources.

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Technical Content Writer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Regularly updated, plenty of features, and reliable
Pros and Cons
  • "AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
  • "The solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms."

What is our primary use case?

This solution can be used to set up a cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices, such as Agile. It can be on-premises or in the cloud.

What is most valuable?

AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time.

What needs improvement?

The solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for approximately eight years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have found the stability very good.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This solution is scalable.

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

I have previously used Microsoft Azure DevOps and we prefer Amazon AWS.

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

We are currently paying for the solution on an annual basis.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Amazon AWS a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud
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Regional Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
MSP
Easy to set up with good stability and the capability to scale
Pros and Cons
  • "The stability of the solution is very good."
  • "The pricing of AWS is very unclear. They make it quite confusing."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use the solution to deploy our systems in the Cloud. It could be virtual machines, containers, and servers as well. 

What is most valuable?

We've been using EasyTune for elastic computing and it has been very helpful. It's the feature we're using the most right now.

In general, the solution works quite well.

The product is very easy to set up.

The stability of the solution is very good.

The solution scales well.

Overall, the solution is quite complete. There aren't any missing features.

What needs improvement?

The cost management is too complex right now.

The pricing of AWS is very unclear. They make it quite confusing. They need to make the cost structure easier to understand.

For how long have I used the solution?

We've been using the solution for two years or so at this point. It's been a couple of years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is quite scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so relatively easily.

We have around 50 or so users on the solution currently.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult. It's very easy. The setup is straightforward.

Being on the cloud, the deployment is very fast. It only takes a few minutes.

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

The pricing is confusing. Sometimes there are hidden charges.

What other advice do I have?

We are AWS partners.

We're always using the latest version of the solution. As a cloud-based solution, it constantly updates itself to the latest version.

I'd advise users considering the solution that they really need to understand the costs and how they work with AWS. At some point, it can get confusing and it can lead to companies dealing with hidden charges.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. If it wasn't for cost management, I would rate it higher.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Enterprise Solutions Executive (AWS Certified Solutions Architect) at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Scalable, easy to set up and very easy to use
Pros and Cons
  • "The product is highly scalable."
  • "The feedback we are getting from our customers, especially here in Turkey where the exchange rate fluctuates regularly, is that the solution is quite expensive."

What is most valuable?

The ease of use is the solution's most valuable aspect for us at this point.

You can manage everything from the console, which is very convenient. 

The high level of technology of the database services being served to the customers is impressive. 

The security is excellent. We feel very protected by the solution.

The solution is very easy to set up.

The product is highly scalable.

There is very good documentation available to users for troubleshooting, et cetera.

What needs improvement?

From a technology standpoint, the solution is almost perfect. We don't feel that anything is lacking in that sense.

The feedback we are getting from our customers, especially here in Turkey where the exchange rate fluctuates regularly, is that the solution is quite expensive. Other cloud competitors are less costly. From our country's point of view, I would say that it needs to be cheaper.

When the solution faces downtime, it can be for hours or half a day. This is far too long.

For how long have I used the solution?

I would say that I started using AWS around 2017.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable. That said, there are some instances that some of the services in some of the regions might go down. The downtime sometimes will last longer than you expected. We expect that occasionally the downtime maybe a few minutes or half an hour. That's not always the case. Sometimes it can be hours. Sometimes it can even be half a day. For us, the downtime is a problem. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is highly scalable. You can create thousands of servers in minutes or something like that, so it's very scalable. If a company needs to expand, it can do so with ease using this solution.

The types of businesses we typically deal with are rather small. 

How are customer service and technical support?

I haven't used technical support. I haven't yet had a need to. Therefore, I can't discuss anything in regards to their helpfulness or knowledgeability. That speaks to how good their product has been overall.

That said, if you run into problems, most of the issues that you are having in terms of technical difficulties can be solved within the documentation.

How was the initial setup?

The solution is very easy to install. If you start short-term with the database services, and if you then get the Web Services, it's very easy. A company shouldn't have any trouble setting everything up. It's not complex.

I tend to manage the solution for my clients once it is installed.

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

Due to currency fluctuations in Turkey, we find the product to be on the more expensive side. There are other, cheaper options on the market.

What other advice do I have?

I'm a consultant. If the customer wants an AWS solution or AWS consultancy, I give these services to them. If they want some local provider, I also work with them.

We are using the latest version of the solution.

Most of my clients don't know the technology and don't want to get into deep technical knowledge in terms of the solution itself. They don't want to manage AWS. They just want to let someone manage their infrastructure and AWS services for them. There aren't too many large companies dealing with AWS on a massive scale in Turkey. I don't really deal with larger entities anyway.

So long as an organization's focus is not on pricing, I would recommend the solution.

In general, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: partner
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