Lead Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
Apr 8, 2025
While I have not compared it with GCP or Azure ( /products/microsoft-azure-reviews ), AWS generally offers cost-effective services. Some services, like Athena ( /products/odyssey-software-athena-eol-reviews ), charge per request, which raises cost concerns. However, EC2 ( /products/amazon-ec2-reviews ), Fargate, and Graviton are cost-friendly with pay-on-demand models.
Solutions Architect/ Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 10
Feb 12, 2025
Compared to other open-source tools, AWS X-Ray needs improvement in providing discounts. Customers often seek cheaper solutions. When using many AWS resources, pricing can be a mid-range cost, given the high dollar rate in Brazil.
Managing Trustee and CTO at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
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Top 10
Feb 17, 2023
I'm not involved with government pricing. If I switch to the commercial side, the pricing gets better once you get into the billable mode. The pricing gets better as you scale up. As you develop a relationship with Amazon, your pricing gets lower. You get credits for the amount of the system you use, and then if you're the government, you can get government pricing. For commercial users, there's a hump when you go from small to medium to big enterprise. Small businesses can live pretty easily off the free tier in a lot of cases, but when you go from a medium to a big enterprise, it becomes more expensive on a per-user basis. I'd like to see that curve going in a different way where pricing can be driven down while people are trying to adopt the technology.
Senior Java Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Feb 12, 2021
I don't have any information in regards to licensing. I'm not on the DevOps team and typically they are the ones that handle it. It's not an aspect of the solution I'm familiar with.
AWS X-Ray is a powerful debugging and performance analysis tool offered by Amazon Web Services. It allows developers to trace requests made to their applications and identify bottlenecks and issues.
With X-Ray, developers can visualize the entire request flow and pinpoint the exact location where errors occur. It provides detailed insights into the performance of individual components and helps optimize the overall application performance.
X-Ray integrates seamlessly with other...
While I have not compared it with GCP or Azure ( /products/microsoft-azure-reviews ), AWS generally offers cost-effective services. Some services, like Athena ( /products/odyssey-software-athena-eol-reviews ), charge per request, which raises cost concerns. However, EC2 ( /products/amazon-ec2-reviews ), Fargate, and Graviton are cost-friendly with pay-on-demand models.
Compared to other open-source tools, AWS X-Ray needs improvement in providing discounts. Customers often seek cheaper solutions. When using many AWS resources, pricing can be a mid-range cost, given the high dollar rate in Brazil.
AWS X-Ray is very beneficial, however, it is expensive. It should be more cost-effective.
The solution is a bit expensive.
I'm not involved with government pricing. If I switch to the commercial side, the pricing gets better once you get into the billable mode. The pricing gets better as you scale up. As you develop a relationship with Amazon, your pricing gets lower. You get credits for the amount of the system you use, and then if you're the government, you can get government pricing. For commercial users, there's a hump when you go from small to medium to big enterprise. Small businesses can live pretty easily off the free tier in a lot of cases, but when you go from a medium to a big enterprise, it becomes more expensive on a per-user basis. I'd like to see that curve going in a different way where pricing can be driven down while people are trying to adopt the technology.
Companies are charged based on use. The pricing is okay. I'd rate the affordability seven or eight out of ten. It's relatively cheap.
I don't have any information in regards to licensing. I'm not on the DevOps team and typically they are the ones that handle it. It's not an aspect of the solution I'm familiar with.