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 features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"Scalability is one of the biggest benefits we have."
"Easy to upgrade, easy to expand storage and change your EC2 types."
"The compute and the elasticness of the compute is really great. Whenever there's a load, it automatically adds the servers and then reduces the servers based on the configuration. This is really wonderful, more cost-effective, and it's been really good for us."
"There is less work for the DBAs. Everything is handled in AWS itself."
"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."
"The most useful feature of Amazon AWS is it can be accessed from anywhere."
"With the pay-as-you-go model, we don't have to predict future IT needs. We can just scale up as we want. That helps with a lot of agility in deploying stuff in our IT infrastructure."
"The process and the workflows are amazing."
"The Salesforce Platform's most valuable features are everything in one place, perfect reporting, highly customizable, and easy to receive information you need."
"The entire solution is very customizable and you are able to add many functionalities."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the CRM. Salesforce Platform comes with out-of-the-box capabilities."
"The standard sales and marketing tools that Salesforce provides on the platform are the most valuable."
"I found the ease of use most valuable in the Salesforce Platform. I also found the platform pretty light."
"The solution has plenty of features that are useful."
"Checking out or extracting a report is just a click away."
"The cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There's a huge cost for support."
"There are some limitations for certain applications that happen regionally and it is an issue for us."
"The dashboard and interface need improvement."
"We have had some difficulty figuring out how to monitor how many EC2 instances have been networked into our entire enterprise. We usually try to create a diagram outside of AWS. The types of information we are trying to determine are, for example, what hardware devices are interconnected, and when was the interconnection made."
"The networking models used in AWS, while functional, do have room for improvement. This is especially the fact, considering that they are built/presented from a systems perspective."
"Our API Management solution is integrated with Lambda, and last year, we had an issue while upgrading Lambda from version 8.0 to version 10. It seemed like Lambda runtime was changed by AWS, and there was a bug that caused the downtime. The loading of the dashboard is slow. It could be because I am located in China."
"I'd like the solution to be more plug-and-play."
"The initial setup process was a complex thing to do because four different organizations were working together."
"When it switched to lightning, it threw me for a loop. When they changed the look and feel, I had a hard time finding things and doing what I used to do."
"The reporting functionality is not very intuitive."
"The reporting needs improvement and the dashboard could have more components added."
"UI needs to be more intuitive and user friendly."
"In Salesforce, every customer is unique and it's not possible to bundle them together effectively if they are from the same company or move companies, et cetera."
"It is quite expensive. It has gotten to that point where it is a lot more pricey. It has kind of got its own proprietary language for development. It is probably never going to change, but if it had a more market language for development, it would be easier to find developers. They come at a premium cost, so it is expensive."
"The integration of Salesforce with other solutions could be improved."
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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