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reviewer1381527 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Science Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Simple to learn, easy to use, and useful services
Pros and Cons
  • "There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn."
  • "Some services that are not used often have poor quality and need to be improved."

What is our primary use case?

I used the solution to build clusters. We use clusters to scale resources. We can process terabytes of data daily in batch jobs and stream processing. I have approximately five terabytes of data daily being processed in batch jobs on the EMR process. We have a script that upscales the services, resources, and runs the whole computation process, and then shuts down the resources when finished. We will also use a flow as a pipeline to build the scripts in sequence. 

Additionally, my company has a lot of fraud detection solutions. We have solutions such as churn prevention, those models are now a product in AWS, and we use them. The resources and services that AWS provides are online 24 hours a day.

What is most valuable?

There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn. The main services that are offered and used most often are easy to use.

What needs improvement?

Some services that are not used often have poor quality and need to be improved.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is decent with the solution.

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is easy to scale the resources.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Amazon AWS an eight out of ten.

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reviewer1559283 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical and Solutions Executive at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Reseller
User-friendly, scale as you require, easy to setup, and the support is good
Pros and Cons
  • "It's very user-friendly."
  • "The interface could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

I use this solution to build IoT products.

I am a customer and I have a reselling agreement.

How has it helped my organization?

We use this product to build our products and services, which is what we sell.

What is most valuable?

I like that all of the features are complimentary. I use all of the features together.

It's very user-friendly.

There is nothing that needs changing.

What needs improvement?

The interface could be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon AWS for two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a very stable product.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Amazon is based on scalability. You can scale as you require. We have no issues with scalability.

How are customer service and technical support?

The technical support is very good.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is easy.

What about the implementation team?

I completed the installation myself.

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

Pricing is good.  It's average.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I also evaluated Microsoft Azure.

What other advice do I have?

I would advise others to use the platform.

I would rate Amazon AWS an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: reseller
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reviewer1707912 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst and Team Lead at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Stable and provides smooth service for our customers
Pros and Cons
  • "AWS is stable."
  • "AWS could be more scalable."

What is our primary use case?

We had previously been working on a local office server. Our local server wasn't performing well, so we switched to the AWS cloud service. We want to provide smooth service from our application to our end-users.

For how long have I used the solution?

We first deployed Amazon ASW five or six months ago.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

AWS is stable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

AWS could be more scalable. We have two versions of our product: desktop and cloud. And there are approximately 100 to 200 users there. 

How are customer service and support?

We get our first-line support from our in-house support, and they deal with Amazon support.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Amazon AWS eight out of 10

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CloudOps Leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Ever-improving, stable solution but could use APM monitoring
Pros and Cons
  • "Since AWS came a bit later to the market, they are always improving and upgrading their platform."
  • "They do not yet have a complete solution for APM monitoring. But this, along with real user monitoring, is something that they are actively working on improving."

What is our primary use case?

I am the leader of a team that runs cloud operations for our clients. We work with AWS on a daily basis using it for synthetic and real use monitoring. Our company is partnered with AWS.

What is most valuable?

Since AWS came a bit later to the market, they are always improving and upgrading their platform.

What needs improvement?

They do not yet have a complete solution for APM monitoring. But this, along with real user monitoring, is something that they are actively working on improving.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using AWS for about a year. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is very stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is easily scalable.

How are customer service and support?

My team and I have not needed to contact support.

How was the initial setup?

In general, the initial setup was quite easy.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate this product a seven 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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it_user593445 - PeerSpot reviewer
Full Stack Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Manages ELB with less configuration from the users' side.

What is most valuable?

Elastic Load Balancer: AWS completely manages ELB with less configuration from the users' side. Setting up the load balancer manually is really a headache.

How has it helped my organization?

Deploying to the elastic cloud is much easier now with AWS. This makes the go-live process easy.

What needs improvement?

Billing: They should make billing more simplified. It would be great if they could explain how deploying to elastic cloud is much easier now with AWS. Elastic beans command line interface [eb cli]: You can easily deploy code straight from your code IDE.

The billing calculator has lot of options which confuses the user. If they could provide some template for billing and directly execute those template, that would be great.

For example, the billing template for the standard WordPress Server with Load Balancer and S3 Connectivity: Users could just change the parameters inside the template and execute to see their estimated billing.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I did not encounter any issues with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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

We were using only AWS.

How was the initial setup?

The setup was straightforward in all ways.

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

Free tier is always there for demo and testing. Pricing is based on the usage.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated Microsoft Azure.

What other advice do I have?

AWS is good for any kind of requirements.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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it_user79794 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Expert with 51-200 employees
Vendor
Migrating to Amazon RDS

Having used AWS for a few years, there are numerous ways to get "your data" to the cloud. Usually the simplest is export/import (bias towards Oracle), but this process is usually slow when you start moving large data sets. There is the RMAN backup/recovery manager but this requires you to have the same instance version in the cloud - not good if you want to upgrade at the same time. Datapump is also available and is very useful as you can do Network data Pumps across database links - but again this can sometimes be slow.

I then looked into using Amazon's Advanced Data Migration Techniques (published Nov 13 2013) and decided to give it a go and have posted my walk through below (quite technical):

http://www.connecteddba.com/howto/MigratetoRDS.htm...

This was done from a local "data center" 100GB database, exported using datapump, copied to a M1.Xlarge EC2 in cloud and then copied further to the backend DATA_PUMP_DIR on the RDS instance (which you don't have access to). Then a datapump import into the RDS and job done - took me approx 12 hours in total (and that wasn't using Tsunami).

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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