Amazon AWS Valuable Features

AD
Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Based on what I do, it's not one service; they're interconnected. For example, when migrating a website from one cloud provider to another, I use EC2, a database system, and Route 53 for DNS. They really depend on each other. 

Now, if I had to pick just one... I like EC2. I can spin up applications and shut them down. When I work on security groups, opening and closing ports, EC2 allows it.

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SD
Cloud Security Architect at Capgemini

It's a good cloud for beginners.

There is no downtime. The solution is reliable. 

Deploying resources on AWS is fairly easy and more secure than any other cloud. That's what our initial impressions are.

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YK
Assistant to Vice President at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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.

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March 2024
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Minos Pitsillides - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at IT-Flow ltd

AWS has a lot of flexibility, which is great.

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Binoj BALAN - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Solution Architect at StarOne IT Solutions

I like the auto-scaling functionality and compliance requirements, whichever they are requesting. 

I also appreciate new setup services, which allow customers to easily manage their entire AWS infrastructure through code, and the managed services that handle the heavy lifting for us.

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Richard Halter - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Global Retail Technology Advisors, LLC

It's been a while since I've looked at the AWS model, however, just at a high level, of course, being able to build a microservice architecture, that's the heart of modern retail. That's where they have to go. COVID has driven everybody to realize that's what you got to do. That's one of the key components of AWS. The cloud piece is a nice supporting concept and it's necessary to make the microservices features work and make the whole architecture really agile. That's a critical component of it as well.

Of course, being able to figure out how you want to coordinate services - that whole service management piece - is critical. You could have thousands of services and I'm pretty sure you'd just be overwhelmed due to the fact that you've lost track of everything and you're back to the way things were when you had the big monolithic models.

The stability is excellent.

The solution has good speed. It's very fast.

The execution is fantastic.

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Kublai Gomez - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Userlytics Corporation

The most valuable feature of the solution is that they offer everything around in just one platform. They have almost everything. For example, a couple of weeks ago, I was trying to build a server with RabbitMQ for some kind of real-time communication in an environment where I was working. Amazon already has a service named Amazon MQ, because of which you don't need to configure your server by yourself since you already have it integrated into the ecosystem. It's easy to ensure that the server is there for your system without any issues and allows you to run it in seconds instead of three or four days.

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Bharath Kumar Gajula - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

One of its most valuable features is its scalability. You can instantly scale resources up or down as needed, avoiding the need to build infrastructure from scratch.

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FlorianPriede - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Account Manager Premier Services at Hyland

Scalability is one of the biggest benefits we have.

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PK
Data Center SME at Orange España

The best thing is scalability.

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Derek Smith - PeerSpot reviewer
Development and Release Compliance Officer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The monitoring is the most valuable aspect of the product.

Technical support is available if you need it.

The solution is stable.

The scalability is okay. It's similar to what you would get with Azure. 

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Surjit Choudhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultancy at Ebenezer International School

The most valuable is ensuring the integrity of our written code through thorough verification. Also, we've leveraged AWS services like Redshift and Glue. Glue, in particular, is a potent tool that simplifies the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process. It streamlines tasks like table creation and data loading into Redshift, making the process more efficient and manageable.

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Kublai Gomez - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Userlytics Corporation

The ecosystem offered by the product has almost everything. A couple of weeks ago, I was trying to build a server with RabbitMQ for real-time communication in an environment. Amazon already has a service called Amazon MQ. We don’t need to configure the server ourselves because we already have one integrated into the ecosystem. It’s easy to install the server in our system. We can run it in ten minutes instead of waiting three to four days.

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KP
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The cloud-based nature of AWS is crucial for scaling our resources effortlessly. It's a key reason we chose AWS.

We find EKS particularly helpful for its ease of use and management of containerized applications.

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SundaresanSubramanyan - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder and Managing Director at Analytic Brains Technologies Private Limited

Security, quick deployment, and scalability are the top three features for me.

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WE
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have found the Elastic Cloud Compute service (EC2) as well as the simple storage solution (S3) to be the most valuable aspects of the solution.

We deploy our core application and our integration platform on AWS EC2 instances. These applications contain multiple containerized Python Django applications, which need to scale up and down dynamically. They also need to be secure to prevent unwanted bad actors from using our AWS compute instances for malicious activity.

Finally, we find the S3 buckets to be quite valuable. S3 allows us to securely store large customer files without fear of them being compromised, changed, lost, or corrupted.

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SP
Oracle SOA & J2EE Consultant at Absa Group Ltd

AWS is known for its scalable cloud hosting and computing services. We use various features depending on our needs, including endpoint services, database instances, and EC2 instances.

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Md Saiful Hyder - PeerSpot reviewer
AGM, Enterprise Solutions at Omgea Exim Ltd

The introduction of the ITD pipeline makes the development and operation cycle easier for the organization.

The solution also helps organizations to move applications to a containerized platform.

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BT
Chief Security Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The whole solution is well designed and AWS has decent documentation, which is not to be taken for granted. I've also found that AWS is easy to use.

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Kanghong.Cai Cai - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Director Digital Solutions at Thermo Fisher Scientific

The tool is a hosting platform that we can leverage to open servers. We can use it to build databases. We use cost management and high-performance capabilities of the tool. 

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David Jothidoss - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Solution Architecture (AWS & Azure) at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The product is easy to use. Its availability and support are its biggest strengths.

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KJ
SAP Architect at Deloitte

We like the that, within the public subnet of this solution, a new instance of the tool is launched when it detects an issue, in order to prevent interruptions in performance.

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Carlos Mardinotto Junior - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Amazon AWS has a good Redshift database. 

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Amarjit Rathee - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

The scalability is a valuable feature. 

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Graham Zabel - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of DevOps at Devoteam Management Consulting

I am impressed with the solution's EC2 EKS. 

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Buyer's Guide
Amazon AWS
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Amazon AWS. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
763,955 professionals have used our research since 2012.