Amazon AWS Initial Setup
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Sandeep Dhawan
Cloud Security Architect at Capgemini
The initial setup is kind of difficult. It's not just users going to Amazon and buying it from an Amazon account. You have to do a lot of configurations.
On a scale of one to five, one being easy and five being hard, I'd rate the implementation process at a four.
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Bharath Kumar Gajula
Network Security Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is moderately complex.
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Sudarshan Pavuluri
Oracle SOA & J2EE Consultant at Absa Group Ltd
Setting it up was easy.
The entire deployment process took us around two to three months. It is a manual process but we plan to automate it with Terraform soon.
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Amazon AWS
April 2024
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Kublai Gomez
Senior Software Engineer at Userlytics Corporation
The initial setup is a thing that you need to learn. The setup part is not easy at all. Usually, in some companies, you have a person that works only with Amazon. You have one profile in your company just to work with the infrastructure services inside Amazon. You need a kind of specialized profile for that work.
Surjit Choudhury
Consultancy at Ebenezer International School
The initial setup was straightforward.
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Graham Zabel
Head of DevOps at Devoteam Management Consulting
I would rate the solution's setup an eight out of ten.
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Kanghong.Cai Cai
Sr. Director Digital Solutions at Thermo Fisher Scientific
I rate the product's installation a nine out of ten. One resource is enough to handle the deployment.
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Senior Software Engineer at Userlytics Corporation
We will have to learn to setup the tool. Someone with no experience would not be able to do it. In some companies, there is a person that works only with Amazon. The person will be profiling the company to work with the service center infrastructure inside Amazon.
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HariRajendiran
Senior site reliability engineer at Next think india
My company is not dependent on Amazon AWS for deployment purposes since we use our own tools to handle the deployment area. My company uses Amazon AWS for the underlying platform but not for the deployment area since we have our own setup for it.
The initial setup phase may be pretty easy for those who learn to gain knowledge and expertise in Amazon AWS. At the initial stage, the product's users may look for more documentation on the tool, but I feel that the services under Amazon AWS are self-explanatory. I rate the product's initial setup phase a seven or eight out of ten.
I am a part of the team in my company that carries out the product's deployment in multiple regions.
The product's deployment process consists of a fully automated setup phase. Though my company had to be involved in a lot of engineering work in the initial phases, only around four to six members were required to take care of the deployment after the automation.
The solution can be deployed in around 10 to 15 minutes.
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Khar Yeow Phang
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is simple.
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reviewer2335179
Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The first time I used AWS was in 2014 for my first project on the platform. That was the first time I logged in to the console, created a VPC, and deployed a VM. Everything was new to me. I used Udemy to learn to learn about this product in 2014.
I actually learned as I went along on the project. I knew nothing about it before starting, and I figured it out along the way.
The difficulty level for the setup depends on how inquisitive you are and how deep you want to learn. If you're not patient, you might miss things.
You need to have that initial interest and drive to start, and that makes it easier. For me, it was very easy because I was on a project, and it had to be successful at all costs. So, there was pressure, and I had no choice but to make it work. So, it depends on the scenario.
But overall, it should be easy for a new person to use AWS because there are so many resources available. There are tons of white papers, online courses, and documentation on GitHub, and AWS has a lot of documentation online as well. So, it makes it easy. There's a step-by-step guide on how to use the infrastructure. So, it should be easy for a beginner.
Setting up a VPC takes less than three minutes. Then, for it to start loading in AWS, it may take an additional two minutes. Then, for the VM, after creating the VPC, it depends on what you want. Do you want a Linux VM, Amazon Linux, Windows, or Mac OS? Whichever one you choose, if it's already created with all the dependencies from the marketplace, spinning up a regular Linux server on an Amazon VM should take less than three to four minutes. It is easy and very straightforward.
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PankajKumar19
Data Center SME at Orange España
The initial setup is easy.
In a cloud environment, we need just to associate that business. If I have to build approximately 10 to 15 VMs, we have the templates. We have the AMI. We have everything in place. We need to just automate and place everything in the dashboard. It is very easy to customize.
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reviewer1280193
Assistant to Vice President at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The simplicity of Amazon AWS depends on the engineering processes implemented by the client's organization. Setting up these processes may take some time, but the AWS SDK provided by Amazon is helpful. Moreover, integration with other tooling is also necessary.
Once the processes and platforms are configured, the execution becomes automatic. This has been successfully accomplished in many engagements where pipelines are run for tasks, such as provisioning new infrastructure and making multiple releases.
For a business with a small deployment and with minor features needed the process of implementation can take 30 minutes and in some instances less than 15 minutes. However, if it's a large release with multiple features, including verifications, it can take up to one and a half hours maximum. The more features added the longer the implementation will take.
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Ado TIMAMO
Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The setup process was quite simple.
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Christoph Helm
Managing Director at Erste Group
Setting up AWS was pretty easy. It was straightforward to set up, and it took us a year to develop and migrate our mobile banking solution to the AWS cloud. Our migration experience was quite positive.
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Binoj BALAN
Principal Solution Architect at StarOne IT Solutions
Setting up AWS was easy. I used Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with YAML codes to deploy the infrastructure quickly.
It took me about half an hour to spin up the VPC, security policy, launch instances, attach the Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, connect to the S3 VPN endpoint, and configure cloud-native services like CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
However, it took me almost a week to prepare the IaC code beforehand. This code can be easily reused and modified for future deployments with any minor changes required by the customer's use cases.
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it_user836085
I help CTOs/Managed Service Providers save 7%-55% on AWS bills with AI. at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
It was straightforward.
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Steven Odera
Independent Contractor at Legacy Lighthouse Ltd
The initial setup of Amazon AWS is complex due to how infrastructure is set up in different organizations.
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reviewer1438260
Lead Architect - Expert Enterprise Data Solutions at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is not complex. When we lifted and shifted faced lot of problems on EMR. Moved to ECS, as well as serverless Lambda, it's was that difficult then. That said, we had to think about how we run our Lambdas, and what problems we are facing or might face.
We're also facing a few problems due to the fact that we use encryption, HCM. When we initially started loading this data, batch data, a lot of Lambdas came, and our limit in HCM is only about 5,000 a minute, however, it quickly jumped up to 20,000 which made it so that we could not load, and errors came up. We had to turn to AWS to get assistance. We just ask them if we can have space over a few days for 20,000 and then they scale it back to 3,000. they helped us
In terms of the implementation strategy, ours took about eight months. The lift and shift happened within 3 months. Then, we took another four months as we had a lot of problems with our scale-up programming due to multiple issues - for example, libraries, EMR, AWS doesn't have. We faced some problems when we had to change our code according to AWS, or we have to bring in those libraries on our own. So that's where it took time, maybe four months.
For ECS, it took about 30 days to move everything we needed to.
We don't have a lot of staff to maintain the product. We have about eight people who are capable of doing so. For example, we have someone on infrastructure, who is an architect and we have an enterprise architecture team. I have four developers, two for API and two for Lambda, and one is a systems admin.
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Ashish Jaiswal
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is straightforward. We have the guidelines and documents from AWS, so it is easy for us. AppDynamics is also supporting us for the installation of their components.
The time required for deployment is not long. Creating an EC2 instance only takes between 15 and 20 minutes.
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SundaresanSubramanyan
Founder and Managing Director at Analytic Brains Technologies Private Limited
The quickest way to set it up is the most beneficial feature. We can set up resources quickly and scale them as needed, starting small and growing as requirements increase. That's very helpful. It saves us a lot of time.
The initial setup is straightforward if you spend some time learning it. They're improving the user interface, which helps.
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FlorianPriede
Technical Account Manager Premier Services at Hyland
It is easy. With our solution, it's really a piece of cake. Even my seven-year-old would be able to set up a cluster with high availability, as long as I tell her what to enter.
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Ariful Mondal
Global Data Architecture and Data Science Director at FH
Because the solution is on cloud, there's no real installation. You download to the cloud and login. When it comes to infrastructure positioning you need to have different teams. It requires some infrastructure support but it's fully managed by AWS. We plan to increase usage.
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reviewer1453347
Cloud Architect at a legal firm with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is not complex. It's very straightforward.
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Minos Pitsillides
IT Director at IT-Flow ltd
They are difficult to set up. Before you can start using AWS, you must first read the documentation and learn a lot about it.
I would rate the initial setup a three out of five.
It is not very easy, and difficult to complete some of the tasks.
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Balaji T
Manager Project Management at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is straightforward.
The installation is done through the AWS Cloud and is so simple that it only took me 15 minutes to create instances, possibly even less than 10 minutes.
We have 200 engineers who are responsible for both the development tasks and the maintenance.
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reviewer1572765
Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
There is no installation or implementation per see. It's a cloud service. You simply have to sign up.
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reviewer1559967
Director, Tools Engineering & Security, Data Platform
The initial setup is fairly straightforward.
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Wilfred Thomson
Senior Cloud Consultant at GBM
You have to create an EC2 instance, which is the compute. We have to create that to get the compute platform, but you have to install your application. You have to patch the operating system and you have to upgrade your operating system.
The operating system and upwards is the customer's responsibility in an EC2 instance.
It's a straightforward installation because it's your application and your operating system just like you are on-premises, but you will do it on the cloud through a browser or through a CLI, a command-line tool.
The deployment timeline depends on how complex your application is. Because you are getting the platform from AWS as a computing platform, you have to install your application. It depends on the complexity of your application, so it varies.
Depending on how much you are using it, determines the maintenance. Typically, you will need different roles, you will need administrators who operate this environment, and if you are also developing applications, you would need developers.
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Reviewer01388
Service Delivery Manager at Orange
The initial setup was straightforward to a large extent.
We are continually migrating services, as per the client's requirement. But I think a mid-size application consisting of 10 servers can take two to three weeks to get onboarded on AWS. This is starting from discovery, planning, migration, and then going live.
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Richard Halter
President at Global Retail Technology Advisors, LLC
I didn't actually set up an operating AWS model on my computer. Therefore, it would be difficult to discuss the initial setup.
I tell clients to use it, however, I don't go into building one on my own. I don't have a need for it here, and I don't have applications to run on it. In my case, it's more an architectural world rather than a physical world.
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reviewer936300
Director Of Sales Marketing at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was very simple. I have been using Terraform as an infrastructure as code tool, and with Terraform, it's very simple. Within one day, I can provision the AWS Infrastructure as a Service tool and install our platform based on the cloud and data analytics.
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RameshJain
Founder CEO at PROZM Knowledge Services Pvt Ltd
The initial setup is all easy. It's very easy.
Our deployment took just a few clicks. You are talking seconds.
Tristan Bergh
Data Scientist at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The setup in AWS is a whole service in and of itself. To set up AWS applications, AWS offers a full service, CloudFormation, with some added features that allow us to automate the deployment of the full solution stack.
This makes setup complex, in that one must modify the CloudFormation template one requires and validate it. An external resource was required to check the templates.
Once this is done, the full solution stacks are automatically deployed.
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reviewer1450485
Senior Manager, Engineering at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was definitely complex, but not because of AWS. It is complex because we need to upgrade to be compatible with AWS, which is related to the product and not AWS. The setup of AWS is straightforward.
We deployed it in a cluster way. Initially, it took a week to set everything up.
The first time it took longer, then became straightforward. It only takes a couple of hours now.
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Nagaraj H
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at Refinitiv
The initial setup is easy.
Deployment is not a problem for us because we have experience. For new people, they are a bit worried about new features, until they develop a routine.
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KarthikeyanJayaraman
SAP Architect at Deloitte
The initial setup for this solution is straightforward.
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reviewer930837
Senior Manager (Engineering Department) at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The length of time and difficulty of the implementation depends on the scale and the complexity of the project.
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ByronSierra
Principal Consultant at High Sierra Consultants
You need to know what you're doing. I know they're trying to make it easy. Some things are easy. Some things you have to know what you're doing.
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reviewer1667751
Manager, Technology at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup is pretty straightforward. The main thing is getting the security protocols set up in the proper order, otherwise it won't work. You have to go in and set up the main group and make sure to share it to your database. They've improved their documentation and it's a lot better but still lacks a little in some areas. If you've deployed before, setup takes a couple of hours, otherwise it might take up to a day. It's a lot faster on cloud; if you're working on-prem you have to jump through a lot of hoops because each team has its own security.
They have scripting tools on AWS which allow you to set up your framework and you can use it as a template. We use an AWS architect for implementation and to make sure all the security is set up. And then we have a DevOps team that manages the OS updates. That's a team of three handling over 100 servers, VMs basically. Once a month they do the non-production patching with the production patching the following week.
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GauravSingh2
Product Owner for AWS and DevOps at Sunlight Financial
The initial setup is easy. It is not complex.
We have a team of 50 people who maintain all of our solutions. It's spread across the team to run 24/7.
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reviewer1525914
Sr Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our developers found the installation a moderate level of difficulty, there was not anything that was complex. It is helpful to have some tutorials to follow.
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Fed Yunis Zapata
IT Solutions Architect at Canvia
It's very easy to set up services in AWS. Depending on the solution you need to deploy it can be very quick. A virtual machine can be deployed in 5 minutes.
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Naresh Rayakwar
Lead architect at Tech Mahindra Limited
The initial setup is easy and you don't really need to install anything. If you understand cloud solutions, you can easily do it yourself.
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Rodrigo Bassani
Head Of Technology at Elogroup
The setup of the solution is not so easy, it requires various skills to complete it. The whole implementation can take a month. However, different parts can take more or less time depending on the knowledge of the implementor.
The messaging layer, in general, is easy today than before when you had to create all the data centers around the world and create the steps to connect the data centers to each other. They have improved a lot over the year but they could still improve more.
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HimanshuTejwani
System Administrator and DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is an on-demand service. There is a monthly billing requirement which is for the virtual machines we currently use.
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Bryan Wei
Director of Platform and Information Security at Brace Software
The initial setup is both really straightforward and complex. At first, it's simple. However, as you get deeper into the solution and work in all kinds of variations or all kinds of scenarios, things get really complex. The more you have to consider the more complicated it can get. The complexities multiple quickly.
We use Terraform to provision the best infrastructure, which makes our platform really easy to manage in terms of our implementation strategy.
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Sr. Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Managing IaaS was very difficult in the beginning, i.e., tons of jargon to get up and I struggled for months.
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Sohail Iqbal
Sr. Systems Architect at Orison Tech
The installation is straightforward.
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Julio Cesar-Cunha
Senior Sales Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The difficulty of the implementation depends on the project. We have a lot of very complicated and complex project which make the implementation more difficult. However, a small project can be very simple to implement. In general, over 90% of the project tend to be complex implementations.
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reviewer1044891
Integration Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Deploying AWS could be straightforward or complicated depending on the use case. If it's a simple application, you can deploy it within a day. If it's very complex and your team isn't experienced, it can take months.
The amount of maintenance needed depends on your application and how you define support and maintenance. Some staff will handle things internally and others will be responsible for the cloud applications.
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Alexey Timchenko
Senior Vice President Information Technology at TASC Towers
The initial implementation process is pretty simple and easy. It's not complex or overly difficult. A company shouldn't have any issues with the deployment process.
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Md Saiful Hyder
AGM, Enterprise Solutions at Omgea Exim Ltd
The solution’s initial setup is very easy. Amazon AWS is the easiest cloud platform to learn and deal with compared to any other provider.
I rate Amazon AWS a nine out of ten for ease of initial setup.
Daniel_Marin
Software Developer at Generate Impact
I work with my customer's solutions and I deploy into AWS to provide the end product for my customers. I don't directly deal with AWS implementations themselves.
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Laurent Fichet
CTO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The level of difficulty for the installation of Amazon AWS is similar to Microsoft Azure. They are very difficult.
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Ibrahim Rasras
Lead solution architect at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees
When you speak of installation, you refer to applications already built or software in ATC to be installed. AWS doesn't sell applications, they give you an infrastructure as a service, application as a service, and a platform as a service but they don't give you applications to be installed.
There is no installation required in AWS.
The maintenance required depends on the size of the company. Some larger companies require a larger IT department while others don't require it at all.
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Pramod Sharma
Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
The initial setup was quite complex. You're designing something and have downloaded the infrastructure of cloud providers which is always complex. Once you start using the solution it becomes easy.
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Safalya Mitra
Vice President - Services at Locuz Enterprise Solutions Ltd
It was not too complex. We are very straightforward and not too complex in terms of our infrastructure.
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Jai_Prakash
Senior Manager IT at OakNorth Bank
The installation and initial setup are easy.
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AjuMathai
Senior Technical Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is comparatively very easy. We have our own R&D environment where we do our work. When we want to actually do something for the client, we just move the work that we have done in our R&D environment into the client's cloud. It is very easy to use all the services.
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Senior Technical Support Analyst at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The setup was easy at first, because a lot of the services are wizard driven. We found as we needed to customise the services further, we had to do most of this manually to get the desired result.
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reviewer1774125
Senior QA Manager Performance Testing & Engineering at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is straightforward. However, you can't give a broad overview of your setup as it depends on your use case.
There are numerous use cases, and the setup varies from complicated to very simple in some cases. As a result, I don't want to give a generic answer.
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Osamah Khan
Owner at Global Creations Pakistan
Installation for this solution is not complicated. It's easy to install. It's straightforward. If I were to rate my experience with the initial setup of Amazon AWS, with five being the best and one being the worst, I'm giving it a five out of five.
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reviewer1752084
Customer Success Manager - Architect: Cloud and Data Platform at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is easy, it's a friendly console for implementation.
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Itthiphol.e
Lecturer and Researcher at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is very simple and straightforward. It's not complex or difficult. A company shouldn't have any issue with the process. The deployment is quick.
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Nouman Khan
Senior Solutions Specialist (Network & Security) at Ooredoo Qatar
It's a cloud-based solution, there is no installation.
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reviewer1483656
Assistant General Manager, Information Technology & Infrastructure at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was easy.
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reviewer1443630
Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup is not complex. It's pretty simple and straightforward.
If you know the patterns for how to set up and host, it's a quick deployment. We normally automate all of our deployments anyway, so the deployment process itself is quick and easy.
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Amarjit Rathee
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
The initial setup is straightforward.
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Valeria Quintanilla
Manager of DevOps at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Deploying AWS is easy. The amount of time it takes depends on the application. I couldn't give a precise estimate of the number of minutes. We have four engineers to manage and maintain the solution.
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Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
The installation of this solution is straightforward.
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Frank Gerlach
President at Embedded Sense, Inc.
While I wasn't a part of the initial implementation, it's my understanding that the process is very simple and straightforward. It's not an overly complex process.
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Rajat_Gupta
Information Security Officer at GlobalSign
You don't require much technical expertise to have an instance, so the initial setup is quite easy.
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Anoop Anoop SLK
Enterprise architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup is easy. It's not overly complex. The deployment depends, however, it could take a few hours to maybe a day, as it is platform and software as a service. It is all managed by AWS. The installation and management require a bare minimum configuration.
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reviewer1207650
Sr. Technology Specialist at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The initial setup and installation are straightforward. They have very good documentation, and if you can follow the script, you can do it. I was trying to do it with the Datacom script, and I was able to make services like VPC and EC2 in the database cloud seamlessly.
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reviewer1505535
Corporate IT Applications Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
It depends on how complex is the architecture of the solution to be deployed, in our case because Magento is sort of "native" for AWS it has been straightforward.
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Steve Drill
VP Platform Engineering at Hydrogen
The initial setup is pretty straightforward. It's not too complex. A company that would like to implement it themselves shouldn't have any problems doing so.
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Erik Najera Ruiz
AWS Certified Solutions Architect y Cloud Application Developer at Honne Services
Either my company or the clients usually have the console already set up when I start work on it, so there's not much in the way of setup that I can comment on.
Derek Smith
Development and Release Compliance Officer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I found the initial setup to be pretty complex. It's just getting more and more complex, with the infrastructure as CodePipelines and that sort of thing. On a scale of one to five, one being the worst and five being the best in terms of complexity, I'd say it's a three.
I have no idea what the operational side does in terms of maintenance. It's not an aspect that falls under my responsibilities.
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reviewer1751898
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Its setup is of medium complexity. It depends on what you're setting up. Some of the things are easy, and some of the things are difficult. For example, setting up infrastructure as code with Terraform is difficult.
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reviewer1024230
Senior Researcher at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The setup was somewhat complex. It was done in three phases over a year.
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reviewer1719711
Co-Founder at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The initial setup is straightforward. I'm technically proficient and did it myself.
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reviewer1672716
Chef manager at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The initial setup is not difficult and it did not take us more than one day.
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reviewer1392516
Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
As a cloud service, there really isn't an installation process that's required.
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reviewer1465254
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The installation for me was straightforward since I have some technical background. However, I did still need to read some documentation. The installation documentation is good and informative. Those who are new to the solution can search the internet for information to guide them and there are courses online to follow too.
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ThierryDavin
Senior consultant at NTT Security
Its initial setup is straightforward. You just need to create an account.
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Staff Engineer at Commonwealth Bank
The initial setup is not complex. In fact, I would say that it is relatively easy.
The time required for deployment depends on which products are selected. Some take minutes, whereas others can take hours.
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Architecte solutions Amazon Web Services at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Very simple, an e-mail address, a credit card, and the account is open.
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Gurudeva Kalledevarpurada B
IT Solution Architect at HCS
The initial setup was complex, as we needed to build the infrastructure from scratch. It would also require expertise in networking and security.
It is very important to safely manage the keys, as otherwise this would lead to costly security breaches. Some amount of playing around with the setup and replicating it via cloud formation will be needed until your architect becomes perfect with the tool.
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Info Sec Consultant at Size 41 Digital
It can be daunting because of the number of AWS products there are. It doesn't take long to skill yourself on the basics of what each one does (in the beginning you will probably be using S3, EC2, and IAM and there are lots of short courses or guides to read).
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reviewer1131864
Associate Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The initial setup is very complex.
The first time we deployed this product, it was long. It took several weeks. Now that we have deployed it for several clients and have more experience, it only takes a couple of days.
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JorgeHerran
Senior Devops at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The initial setup was straightforward. The complexity of the setup will depend on the number of services e.g. it's something that involves a lot of services, it could get complex, but for a complex setup, you could use things like transformation or Terraform because they will enable you to use infrastructure as a code to make it easier. There's a lot of things to configure.
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GregGum
Chief Executive Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The initial setup is not overly complex. It's pretty straightforward.
It's pretty easy to get started. However, you do have to make an investment and learn the different cloud platform's nomenclature. Most of our guys now are cloud practitioners and architects now that they've taken the training. We had to bite the bullet even though we've been users for four years. There is an investment that you have to make on the OPEX side. That's the case for any of the public clouds. Although once you know one, you can pretty much pick up the other ones pretty quickly.
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reviewer1584264
Sr. System Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
It was easy to install.
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reviewer1526127
Director of Technology at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
There is nothing to install, it's cloud. It's easy.
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MADHAV CHABLANI
Consulting Chief Information Officer at Tippingedge
Essentially, you must design and optimize the architecture. It is not the most straightforward process to install. You must first design your architecture and then optimize it in relation to the services.
Earlier I used to work there, and we had a real skill shortage because we needed people who could understand and work in the cloud. When we developed centers of excellence and core competencies, people were required to work across multiple platforms, which is a challenge that we are currently working on. As a result, the real challenge now is for a team to have a multi-cloud. Now, if we can develop this talent organically, that will be fantastic. We'll spread out the support team we require. Another initiative that is being worked on is automation, automating scripts, and new technologies, which are assisting us greatly with serverless and cloud computing.
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reviewer1217268
CTO & Product at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
There's no installation involved. It's a very straightforward product.
As there is no installation process, you don't need a technical team and you don't have to do any maintenance.
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reviewer930093
Director - Technology Operations at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
The installation was straightforward. The installation time varies depending on workloads.
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reviewer1650165
Audit Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The initial setup wasn't easy because we implemented this process over two months, and it was a complex process.
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Owner at a tech vendor
The initial setup was easy and straightforward, as opposed to some other solutions.
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Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Understanding AWS is actually quite easy. There are some notions that require a bit of previous knowledge to grasp. The good news is that the documentation available about the different services is quite extensive, which can give anyone a head start in launching their AWS services. The complexity of using AWS is directly related to the robustness of the application/service that is being deployed. The more AWS services are integrated together, the more complex the deployment will become.
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Sunil Gosai
Digital Services- Cloud Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The AWS initial setup is seamless and straightforward. We set it up ourselves, and we have a 10-person team to manage and maintain the solution. Including design and planning, it took us about three months.
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NikolayBachvarov
Software Architect at AIOPS group
There isn't really an installation for AWS, but you will need certain certificates to download the interface. I generated some certificates, put them on my machine, and then used them to connect to AWS services.
It depends on the project, but there is usually only one guy needed for deployment. For bigger, more complex platforms, you may need two or three guys to deploy AWS.
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reviewer971163
Regional Business Manager - North Latam - Public Sector - Amazon Web Services (AWS) at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is not too complex but it's not straightforward either, somewhere in the middle. In terms of deployment time, it can be anywhere between a few minutes and a week, depending on what you need.
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reviewer1724199
Systems Architect at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
We customized our Amazon AWS deployment. The process takes about three to five hours, depending on the ecosystems we are building. It depends on whether it is related to web services or the call configuration. Some configurations take no more than half an hour. If you're doing something involving the server, you need to personally install some servers and some of the other database-related stuff.
I'm one of the AWS architects, but we have administrators who take care of the maintenance. I'm looking at some of the SNIA content, and it seems pretty good for object storage or some of the other storage-related options. I'm still trying to see which solutions are potentially more suitable for us.
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reviewer1710180
Cloud Solution Manager
The initial setup difficulty depends on the customer's environment. If it's a simple single virtual machine, then it's a simple setup. If it's an SAP-type workload on AWS, then it is somewhat complicated.
If it is a small single-server implementation, it will take one day to deploy. Otherwise, from an application perspective, your team needs to handle everything and it could take beyond 15 days to one month.
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AGM, Enterprise Solutions at Omgea Exim Ltd
As a cloud-based solution, there isn't really an installation process.
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SathishKumar
Project Specialist at integra software
There isn't much installation. It is just about hosting things, which doesn't take that much time. It was quite easy configuration-wise and implementation-wise.
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FABRICIO BRITO
Scrum Master | Project Manager | SW Developer at Mobi7
Our build, or deployment, is dependent on the application, but the pipeline for submitting a new commit and making it a hot deploy would take from five to twenty minutes, depending on the solution.
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COO at a tech vendor
The setup itself was not complex. However, it was an involved exercise moving the email data of all our customers from the data centers to AWS without much downtime.
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Google Cloud Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It was relatively straightforward to install. I have read reviews of others facing issues with getting their accounts approved. However, I never faced such issues.
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CTO at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
If you have not used AWS, its not as straightforward as it could be to choose what stack configuration a particular AMI requires before loading it. OTOH the “Amazon Web Service Pricing Calculator” is currently the gold standard for cloud vendors.
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reviewer1647507
Project Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
pretty straight forward, although this project was 2nd one to be implemented on this cloud, so the customer company had already been up the adoption curve of the service
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Vijay Gandlda
Director at HALL MARK GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES
The initial set up of AWS is easy and not complex.
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Shehzad Ali
Information Security and Compliance Officer at Carnation
The initial setup was quite easy.
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Pankaj Kankar
Chief Operating Officer at FarEye Digital Logistics
My initial setup was quite straightforward.
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Edison Macabebe
Chief Technology Architect - Agile/Devops Evangelist at Sandz Solutions
The initial setup was a little bit challenging because understandably it also tends to protect the user in terms of the security, both the user and the system. So if I understand and appreciate that level of complexity in setting how to access it, setting up the identities, and then once you get through it, I think the interfaces are really quite usable and something that I think is user friendly.
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Software Architect / Senior Software Engineer / AWS Cloud Architect / Azure Cloud Architect / DevOps Engineer at a tech services company
Creating an account from AWS web-page is straightforward. Everyone can easily complete the registration process. Some people are thinking twice when they've asked for their credit card, but this is the nature of cloud systems. You'll pay as much as you use. It's one of the aspects of having everything easy and fast.
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Bhaskar N Subramanian
Founder Director at hobbycue.com
The initial setup was quite complex at first, but once we got the hang of it, it was simple.
It took a week to complete the installation from scratch.
Because it is a cloud product, it does not require a lot of maintenance. We have CloudWatch and some alerts set up, which is how we manage everything, including utilization.
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reviewer1784295
Technical Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The deployment complexity depends on which template you're using: AWS Terraform or CloudFormation. It's easiest to deploy services via Terraform, so you can go with that. That is the most straightforward way, and you can do all automation within Terraform.
Mitul Rajput
GM COE at Anuntatech Management Services Ltd
The installation of AWS is straightforward. It's not overly complex or difficult. They make it pretty simple.
If you have past experience with deploying AWS, then it shouldn't take more than a week.
We have 15-20 team members that work across different technologies and they can handle deployment. We have a team of just over 20 that can handle maintenance. They are admins.
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reviewer1738722
PKI Policies Manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
When it comes to standard configuration, the installation is quick, usually taking one or two days to complete. Custom configuration, while feasible, takes somewhat longer. So far, we have not had many instances in which we required support or advice concerning custom configurations.
The technical team would be in a better position than I to address any technical issues involved in the setup. From my perspective as a project manager, I feel what we have to be sufficiently good. There is much advertising, information on the advantages of the product and guides available.
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Milton Ortegón
CEO at Fit Ideas
The initial setup is very straightforward. I wasn't involved in the deployment, but I believe it took less than four hours.
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Sergio Yazyi
Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The setup is easy and greatly supported by the learning paths offered through the platform. Expertise is required to take full advantage of AWS tools and continuous innovations.
Some customers can become overwhelmed by the range of services, so training and assistance from specialized third-parties is strongly recommended. Even experimented managed service providers can complement internal capabilities and help in the training of internal teams.
One of the advantages of AWS is their high rate of innovation. However, in order to leverage this, internal or external expertise is required. A good partnership is recommended.
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Architect at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
I was not with my current agency during the initial set-up phase.
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reviewer1759671
Technical Solution Architect
The initial implementation process is not difficult or complex. It's straightforward. It's basically having the computing power, the storage, S3, and the database.
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reviewer1716381
Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is straightforward.
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GauravGupta3
Founder & Solution Architect at Fluidech
It is easy to deploy. You can quickly deploy and set it up.
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Ersin Gulacti
Service Management Department Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is easier now. Four years ago it was harder, but nowadays it is a lot easier, because a lot of boiler plate set ups are done for you. So you can just start using it right away, even if you are not experienced.
Four years ago, it was not like this, but it's better now.
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IshtiaqAhmad
Senior Software Engineer at consol gulf
The initial setup, in the end, was pretty straightforward.
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Yogesh (Datamotive)
Founder at a tech company with 11-50 employees
It's all in the cloud, so there is really no installation.
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reviewer1470375
Senior Field Application Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is straightforward. You have all the documentation, so it is pretty good. For its deployment, two or three people should be more than enough.
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reviewer1465647
Cloud Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The initial setup for Amazon AWS is straightforward.
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Samuel Rojas
Senior Information Security Analyst at a recruiting/HR firm with 201-500 employees
I think the initial setup is easy, but you have to invest some time and learn how to do it before setting it up for the first time. It's pretty easy for a new user to set up.
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reviewer1669608
Associate (System Planning) at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
AWS was already installed when I started working at this company, so I don't know.
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DanielMoreno
IT Architect at Orbis Data
Use of the four quarters service posed a problem for us during the initial setup. The setup of the initial quarters of service should be more transparent and clear to the user. Certain limits should be set up to match the varying needs of the users.
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reviewer1406421
Senior Architect, Technology Transformation Group at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I was not a part of the installation process. I cannot speak to how easy or difficult the implementation was. I have no visibility on that aspect. I'm not sure what the makeup of the technical team was or how many people were used to deploy it.
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reviewer932685
VP at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Installation is not a concern for this product, as it is handled by Amazon.
The only concern is during deployment and integrating with other products. However, there are solutions in place for this and it takes between one and two days to complete.
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Kaushik Bhaduri
Co-Founder at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Regarding the initial setup, it took a while for us to get up to speed.
It was fairly complicated actually. It doesn't have many serverless services. Some of them (if the client is actually paying for them) need to be optimized. You also have to be sure to only use the ones that are absolutely the barest minimum or at least the most optimum set of solutions for the client, as it adds to their month to month costs. To configure and to decide what services to buy and what services to build as microservices and how to orchestrate those microservices in the middle base, that took us a while to sort out.
it_user701505
Analista de Projetos at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The setup was very straightforward.
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COO - Chief Operating Officer
The setup was straightforward and the infrastructure is running well.
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Roberto Dalt
Director of Information Systems Engineer / CIO at Azienda ULSS 2 Marca Trevigiana
It was very easy.
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ManuelVallejo
Service Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It's simple because the customer will get familiar with the technology. The customer has to know his company. He has to know it's a new technology and everything gets complicated if the person doesn't adapt to changes. It depends on how they approach all the adoption from this kind of multi-cloud solution.
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ASHOK YADAV
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Setting up AWS was straightforward. It only took around 20 minutes. We used about five to 10 team members for deployment. For maintenance, we have an architect and some RDS specialists.
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reviewer1406874
Consultant at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
It's a cloud-based service. It's easy to set everything up.
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reviewer1558359
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It was easy for us.
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Karima Mechergui
Devops engineer with 1-10 employees
There is no installation, it's a cloud solution.
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reviewer1474095
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
I am not extensively using the solution and I didn't do any work on the AWS; there's a DevOps team who will do the configuration.
That said, it's very straightforward. I didn't face any complexity in configuring AWS, for example.
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Director of IT Projects - AngularJS developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Required some service, but in general there is a lot of documentation and there are training courses.
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AshokPolapragada
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I didn't take part in the initial setup on a very hands-on level. However, I hear from my architects and the development team that it's straightforward.
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reviewer1061583
CTO at a hospitality company with 501-1,000 employees
We are using it on the cloud basis. We don't have any integration on-premises. We found the installation, in that sense, somewhat easy, although there were some moving parts that we still needed a bit of help with.
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Abdulla Pathan
Technology Competency and Solution Head at LearningMate
There is no installation for AWS, as it is a cloud product.
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reviewer1359597
Platform Technologies Lead Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The installation can be challenging when migrating legacy applications to the cloud.
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Sundaresan Subramanyan
Founder and Managing Director at Analytic Brains Technologies Private Limited
The initial setup was straightforward.
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oeco710
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Deploying AWS is complex in the beginning. It becomes more intuitive once you have a solid grasp of the fundamentals. However, a person with no AWS experience might find it overwhelming at first. Total deployment took around two weeks.
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reviewer1702560
Senior Information Technology Manager at a mining and metals company with 201-500 employees
The installation is easy.
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cto267069
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
As a cloud-based solution, there isn't really an installation required. Everything sits in the cloud. You don't need to download or install anything. The setup might take a few months.
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reviewer1586073
Broadcast Technology Director at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was complex because of the networking setup we needed to create. This could have been a problem with the networking site.
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Venkateswarlu Paturu
Service Delivery Manager / Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
There's no initial setup or installation. It's all configuration.
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reviewer1305831
Assistant Manager at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
The initial installation was easy.
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reviewer1566387
IT Staff Manager at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees
It was very easy and fast.
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reviewer1540659
Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
It is very easy to set up.
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reviewer1084716
Arquiteto de Soluções at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It had medium complexity. It was not too complex, but it is never simple to migrate to the cloud. It took three months.
Several people were involved in its deployment. We had 13 people in total. There were about eight people from our side and maybe five people from the customer side.
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Claudio Augusto Rosa David
Specialist Database Management at Claranet
I can handle the implementation process. I've done a few lately.
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Hammad Khan
Deputy Manager at S2 Consulting Services
The installation was not complex. However, it could improve.
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reviewer1536603
Regional Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult. It's very easy. The setup is straightforward.
Being on the cloud, the deployment is very fast. It only takes a few minutes.
UD
reviewer1530834
Director at a media company with 11-50 employees
The installation is quite straightforward.
JP
reviewer1561038
Chief Technology Officer at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
The initial setup is straightforward.
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reviewer1261494
Vice President at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The initial setup is relative. It's easier than others, but it could always be easier.
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Muhammad-Junaid
Consultant at Skill Orbit
Our deployment took between five and ten months.
View full review »it_user98079
CTO at a tech company with 51-200 employees
There was a learning curve, starting to work with the service, too many 3 letters in the lingo. Courses and training and books and a podcast really help.
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reviewer1717506
Microsoft 365 Technical Solution Architect at a marketing services firm with self employed
This solution is easy to install. It's quite straightforward since it's cloud-based. It took half an hour at most.
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reviewer931998
Assistant Professor at a university with 51-200 employees
The implementation is straightforward.
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reviewer1381863
CEO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It is in the cloud, there is no installation.
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reviewer1530819
SAP Platform Security Consulting at a security firm with 1-10 employees
The initial setup is easy.
There is some design that has to be done, including security and zoning.
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reviewer1471179
CTO at a construction company with 11-50 employees
The initial setup is straightforward, and we deploy our production every week.
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reviewer1497903
Digital Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We've found that, overall, the initial setup isn't too complex. It's straightforward and very easy. A company shouldn't have any issues with the implementation process. We didn't have trouble.
Deployment times vary. It often depends on the services involved. We did an implementation in February and it was only five minutes. It can be very quick. It doesn't take too long.
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reviewer1597890
Chief Security Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Deploying AWS solutions is reasonably straightforward. Of course, with all these technologies, you have to understand their vocabulary and like the topology of the thing that they are offering. Implementing AWS IAM was a bit complex. Other than that, AWS stands out for usability.
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Mario Cáceres
Gerente TI at Tecdex
Setting up AWS isn't complex, takes less than a week, and only requires one person.
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Satam Chanbang
Assistant Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup is easy.
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Senior Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Slightly complex because of the user interface which is not simple for first time users
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Ozgur Ekinci
Enterprise Solutions Executive (AWS Certified Solutions Architect) at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is very easy to install. If you start short-term with the database services, and if you then get the Web Services, it's very easy. A company shouldn't have any trouble setting everything up. It's not complex.
I tend to manage the solution for my clients once it is installed.
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Cloud Architect, Oracle ACE, Oracle DBA at Pythian
Due to Pythian's expertise and experience, the initial setup was a breeze.
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reviewer1463712
Utilities WAM consultant at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup was very complex.
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reviewer1028424
General Manager with 51-200 employees
The setup was straightforward.
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Founder at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
The initial setup was straightforward.
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AWS Cloud Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Yes, the initial setup is not so straightforward. The concept changes and you will need to understand this.
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reviewer1511115
Content Writer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's pretty hard to deploy. Our IT takes care of this area.
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reviewer1559283
Technical and Solutions Executive at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The initial setup is easy.
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reviewer1177074
CloudOps Leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
In general, the initial setup was quite easy.
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reviewer1462632
IT Project Manager / Manager / Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The installation was simple because we already have set it up before, it was very quick.
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reviewer1452045
Founder & Chief Operating Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
There is no installation for this solution. It's a cloud solution.
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Full Stack Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The setup was straightforward in all ways.
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Cloud Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Straightforward.
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