We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Salesforce Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The main reason why we use EC2 is because we are not dependent on maintaining the hardware inside our premises. Also, we have full control over the infrastructure, and we can modify it as per our own requirements."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"Amazon AWS has improved a lot on security and is very good. Additionally, You can integrate your own security into their AWS platform."
"The best features are flexibility and cost."
"This solution is stable and reliable."
"I like that the products are specific and objective. We can resolve a problem using a simple configuration. It's so easy to implement a solution and solve a problem using AWS solutions. AWS has a lot of specific solutions for different use cases. I think that this is the most important thing that made us consider using AWS."
"The environment is a rich playground, and if you tried to do the same things on-premises that you do on AWS, it would be a lot more challenging to execute. You can open up a virtual machine on AWS, run some experiments, and be done with it. It's much easier than buying new servers, provisioning them, etc"
"Amazon AWS is very stable."
"We like that the technology is very agile and flexible in the sense that there's a large partner ecosystem within Salesforce Platform. This enables us to choose from many different partners with different advantages, and all of it can be done in a plug-and-play kind of way."
"There are no major performance issues in the solution."
"The stability has been great."
"It is a fairly useful and user-friendly tool for salespersons. It is very extensive and flexible. You can customize it for your needs, and you can use whatever you want. I like Salesforce."
"We used it for providing a 360 view of the customers from within Salesforce. So, a lot of data got presented there, for which we used Einstein Analytics. The Einstein Analytics dashboards were really great."
"It was pretty easy to deploy."
"The solution is used to track our customers."
"Most of the apps allow you to try out the product before buying it. The trial period depends on the product and varies from a week to 30 days."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"Not all of the functionality is available in Europe and our customers in France want to be able to use features that are only available in the US."
"They should really consolidate and make things simpler rather than offer you hundreds of random options. The way everything is arranged really forces users to figure out everything on their own and then, on top of that, to calculate the total costs. There's an infinite number of combinations even just with cost calculations. It's just too much."
"There is no control of downtime."
"Its subscription model or pricing model is too complex, which should be improved."
"They are mainly generalists without access to the operating system. As such, they can provide container level insights,not necessarily at the application level."
"I want to use AWS as a full solution for my website - for domain and website hosting, and everything in between - however, I was not able to find everything together."
"At times we find ourselves a little trapped, with the lack of customization, for what we need."
"Salesforce's mobile app could be better. Also, it could integrate more seamlessly with Gmail."
"Salesforce also did not integrate well with some of the other systems that we had."
"If you have resellers or distributors, you just need to figure out a way to set up the system in the backend. Since every company is different, it takes a little bit of time to figure that out."
"It could be maybe a bit more user-intuitive."
"Simplification is something it needs. Every time you get the engineers involved, they make things a little too complicated. It might be more beneficial to simplify everything for quick and easy reference."
"They have some limitations as a cloud solution."
"Better flexibility in editing emails created from templates would be great, and being able to add hyperlinks in emails for scheduling meetings would allow us to automate more."
"I would like to have integration with Google."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in PaaS Clouds with 250 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 8th in PaaS Clouds with 81 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Reliable with good reporting and custom dashboards". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and VMware Tanzu Application Service, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Azure, Appian and Pega BPM. See our Amazon AWS vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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