Security Engineer-DevSecOps at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Jan 16, 2024
There is room for improvement in built-in tools, they are not up to the mark. Some of the built-in inbound rules feel outdated and could be refreshed with stronger, more relevant options.
Sr Engineer at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Sep 5, 2023
The reboot process for AWS instances could be improved. Microsoft Azure does not have this problem, so AWS could consider making their instances more robust. You would not need to reboot your instances frequently to replace the hardware and stuff. They can look for a better approach or mechanism to improve in the future. The concern is that you need to plan for the outage when you reboot an instance. You need to have a maintenance window where you can properly reboot the instance without affecting your application. When Amazon announces that you need to reboot an instance and are not ready, this becomes a problem.
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Improvements are needed as per customer requirements.
There is room for improvement in built-in tools, they are not up to the mark. Some of the built-in inbound rules feel outdated and could be refreshed with stronger, more relevant options.
The reboot process for AWS instances could be improved. Microsoft Azure does not have this problem, so AWS could consider making their instances more robust. You would not need to reboot your instances frequently to replace the hardware and stuff. They can look for a better approach or mechanism to improve in the future. The concern is that you need to plan for the outage when you reboot an instance. You need to have a maintenance window where you can properly reboot the instance without affecting your application. When Amazon announces that you need to reboot an instance and are not ready, this becomes a problem.
The solution is missing a configuration that can assist us when writing our programming languages.