We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Virtustream xStream based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."AWS's security model, including IAM or security groups, has contributed to our organization's compliance. It manages authentication, permissions, and overall security posture, which helps us maintain compliance."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the high level of capabilities, cloud-native environment, developer-friendly, intuitive interface, and automation. The solution overall is easy to learn from the resources available."
"One of the features offered is scalability on demand."
"Amazon AWS is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features."
"The availability is good, you can get any service you need immediately."
"This solution is stable and reliable."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."
"They currently have fewer regions in Asia, especially in India, China, and other places. They can maybe put more data centers in this region."
"As a result of the competency, I believe that most people are now leaning toward Azure rather than AWS."
"Some of their well-listed services are not super configurable."
"AWS has room for improvement on the Kubernetes side. I would like to go a little deeper into the Kubernetes target, Elastic, inner system, and all that. The EKS, target, and all these areas need to be improved, but that is not my key area because I am mostly working on the application side."
"The IEM (Infrastructure Event Management) appears to be complicated, specifically cross-account resource permissions."
"Support response times can be improved, especially in areas where faster assistance is crucial."
"AWS could be more scalable."
"The price needs improvement."
"Our account representative was inexperienced, they could improve on how they are managing accounts."
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Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Virtustream xStream is ranked 20th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS). Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Virtustream xStream is rated 9.0. 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 Virtustream xStream writes "Improves efficiencies, has encryption, and great mission-critical customer support". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Virtustream xStream is most compared with Microsoft Azure.
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