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Sandeep Dhawan

Cloud Security Architect at Capgemini

Right now we are working on three clouds actually, Azure, AWS, and Google and we have SAP Cloud in the pipeline as well.

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Bharath Kumar Gajula

Network Security Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

We explored Azure and Google Cloud alongside AWS before making our decision. Ultimately, we opted for AWS due to its strong reputation and market leadership at the time of deployment. Additionally, AWS offered superior options compared to other vendors.

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Surjit Choudhury

Consultancy at Ebenezer International School

We receive data from SAP systems, which we process using Databricks. Within Databricks, our coding approach varies; sometimes we use SQL, and in other cases, particularly in certain projects, we employ PySQL and SpotsSQL. We then process this data, which might involve SQL Server, Oracle, or other databases. For ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, we've worked with Data Factory. When dealing with data originating from SAP systems, which often includes unstructured or semi-structured data like JSON, we make use of a diverse toolset. This enables us to load data into databases such as SQL Server and Snowflake or any other required database.

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Kanghong.Cai Cai

Sr. Director Digital Solutions at Thermo Fisher Scientific

I used Microsoft Azure before. I chose Amazon AWS since it has APIs that I can use for software development.

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HariRajendiran

Senior site reliability engineer at Next think india

Previously, I worked with a tool on an on-premises model. I chose Amazon AWS since I wanted to use a cloud-based product.

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Khar Yeow Phang

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

The features, quality, and support are likely comparable to other products.

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PankajKumar19

Data Center SME at Orange España

For a smaller project in Europe, we deployed Dell VXL for 35 sites. The customer has now invested in Dell VXL and is building 30 to 35 sites for Dell VX-ten. This is a huge investment, so they need to stay on this platform for five years. By the end of their standard support period, their hardware will be end of its life. In the meantime, they are exploring the public cloud to create a hybrid environment. Once their hardware becomes obsolete and offline, they will definitely consider the public cloud. Similarly, people who are still on-premises with legacy or Cisco systems will also consider the public cloud. They are in the existing environment and are just waiting for their hardware to reach the end of life. For the next expansion, they want to move to the cloud.

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David Jothidoss

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

We are also using Google Cloud Platform. The choice of the product depends on people’s familiarity and their inclination toward using a certain product.

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reviewer1280193

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

I have worked with Google Cloud Services and Microsoft Azure.

Amazon AWS is known for building many industry platforms, and companies often look to all three hyper scalers to help them build such platforms on Amazon AWS. Large consortia of companies collaborate on such initiatives. However, Google and Azure are more interested in partnering with and supporting industry-level consortiums and technology initiatives, while Amazon AMS sees it more as an engineering capability and expects developers to build everything from the ground up. Therefore, Amazon AMS may need to adjust its approach slightly in comparison to its competitors.

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Binoj BALAN

Principal Solution Architect at StarOne IT Solutions

The specific reason my company chose this product was that whatever use case we were expecting, everything was readily available on the AWS cloud. We didn't want to reinvent the wheel.

We just wanted to choose the right services that would be cost-effective, optimized, meet customer requirements, and offer elasticity, scalability, flexibility, and security.

So, when we compared AWS to other cloud vendors like Azure or Google, AWS performed significantly better. Based on that, our leadership recommended going with AWS, and the business and technical teams supported that decision. So, by taking into account all the inputs from various departments, we decided to go with AWS.

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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

I have used AWS for the last eight years since 2010. Previously, we used various VPS, dedicated servers, and Amazon's solutions, which were crude but a promise for something beyond the traditional infrastructure options.

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Steven Odera

Independent Contractor at Legacy Lighthouse Ltd

We selected Amazon AWS because it was the most mature at the time. It was the initial cloud provider. Then Google and Microsoft also came up with Azure and TensorFlow. TensorFlow is catching up with a few code web programming tools, and that is a point of interest as well as image processing.

In a future release, the solution could improve on the IoT integrations and API access.

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reviewer1438260

Lead Architect - Expert Enterprise Data Solutions at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We've also planed for Azure. We've found Azure to be much more helpful when dealing with issues than AWS has been. I prefer them over AWS in support , application development and integration as platform. But AWS has great products like S3 , API gateway , transit gateways , route 53 . AWS has more OS options than AZURE and database offerings. their EMR is good with spark and python but not well supported for Scala and HBase. AWS serverless offerings are very good with out any major problems which includes ECS with fargate and EKS . But we got a good support from account manager

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Ashish Jaiswal

Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I know a little bit about Azure and GCP, but I am only really familiar with AWS. From our perspective, 60% of users implement AWS.

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SundaresanSubramanyan

Founder and Managing Director at Analytic Brains Technologies Private Limited

Sometimes, customers ask for AWS solutions, but we offer choices based on their needs. Price and geographical preferences can influence their decision. Sometimes, the customers can go for a cheaper product. We don't force them, but we make recommendations.

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reviewer1453347

Cloud Architect at a legal firm with 10,001+ employees

I have experience with Microsoft as well.

The difference is that Microsoft is everybody's house and everybody's corporation. AWS is more for if you want to do something new. If you want to just test something new and if you don't have the money, if you just want to learn, you can do something for almost nothing. You can just spin up something and just spin it back down and pay zero. They're moving into what they call this Self-Service Arena now, so then that way you can start building infrastructure. For example, your developers or your designers can actually go in and have a space that they can play in. That's one of the problems that people have with development. People need spaces, where they can go in and build stuff to try.

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Minos Pitsillides

IT Director at IT-Flow ltd

I'm using both Microsoft Azure and AWS at the same time.

I am a Microsoft Azure certified technician, and some of my clients have asked me about some potential within the product. Based on my research, I discovered that this project can be easily designed using AWS rather than Microsoft Azure. This is why I'm learning more about AWS. It is similar to that of Microsoft Azure, and I'm using it, that we can, say, shut down Microsoft Azure completely and then send all of my clients to AWS.

Half of them are AWS, half are Microsoft Azure, and sometimes there are internal IT departments, which need to follow this path, to create the architecture on Microsoft Azure or AWS based on their architecture.

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Balaji T

Manager Project Management at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I am also, familiar with Splunk.

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Wilfred Thomson

Senior Cloud Consultant at GBM

I have used Azure Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and I have a bit of experience with Google Cloud as well.

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Reviewer01388

Service Delivery Manager at Orange

We are loving this solution so far, and it has certainly reduced the time it takes to stack up new applications.

Also, we are using it for the first time, for this customer, and they too, are loving it. Specifically, the new application launches and testing. I think they're simply having a good time with it.

They experiment with things and tear it off when it is not needed, so they are enjoying it.

I would certainly recommend this to others, for sure.

I would rate Amazon AWS a ten out of ten. Our experience has been great!

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RameshJain

Founder CEO at PROZM Knowledge Services Pvt Ltd

Previously, we were using general hosting, they even call it shared hosting. But it was not scalable and it was not fast.

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Tristan Bergh

Data Scientist at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We did previously use a different solution when building AWS Lambda cloud functions. I could compare them directly with Azure Functions and Google Cloud and have found that the AWS Lambda solution is simpler, clearer, deploys quicker, and is generally much more simple and effective to use.

In terms of documentation, AWS is the clear leader. Their end-to-end examples and workshops are much more effective.

AWS services in many cases are deployed to AWS after being validated in Amazon.com's operations. This is evident in the ease-of-use and simplicity of many of the service features, and also in the excellent options offered for more complex services like AWS Forecast, where, for example, a checkbox and drop-down allows the user to add holidays for the country they work in when doing forecasts.

AWS has a stronger focus on business solutions than either GCP or Azure, and in many of the solutions, I have used. This is why in many cases I have switched from using other clouds, to AWS.

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ByronSierra

Principal Consultant at High Sierra Consultants

We didn't use a different solution previously. They're the first.

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GauravSingh2

Product Owner for AWS and DevOps at Sunlight Financial

I also work with GCP and with Azure.

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Naresh Rayakwar

Lead architect at Tech Mahindra Limited

I didn't use another fast cloud solution before Amazon AWS.

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HimanshuTejwani

System Administrator and DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have used Microsoft Azure and DigitalOcean previously.

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Bryan Wei

Director of Platform and Information Security at Brace Software

We are just a startup so the company is young. The founders made the choice to use the database and they've used it since day one.

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it_user677697

Sr. Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Previously, we surveyed OpenStack. However, due to the time, budget and manpower limitations, building a private cloud is not practical in our case.

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Sohail Iqbal

Sr. Systems Architect at Orison Tech

We were hosting on bare metal servers. Then we moved on to VPS servers, which were managed by our technical staff. And now we're utilizing cloud services.

That technical management part for the multiple VPS, as well as for ourselves and our client, is taking a long time to maintain and everything. As a result, we went to manage services.

These are some additional options. I've seen that Azure has the best cloud dashboard, but the billing and other features are very difficult to use. The same as any other cloud service. The documentation is far superior.

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Alexey Timchenko

Senior Vice President Information Technology at TASC Towers

We also use Microsoft Azure.

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Daniel_Marin

Software Developer at Generate Impact

I'm working with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Computing right now.

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Laurent Fichet

CTO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We have moved from Amazon AWS to Microsoft Azure. I have found that both solutions perform very well. The main reason we switched was to allow us to manage where the data was to be stored. We wanted a data storage solution in France which most of our customers were requesting. Two years ago, Amazon did not have any solution to provide any storage in France.

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Jai_Prakash

Senior Manager IT at OakNorth Bank

I have also worked with Microsoft Azure and I find the initial setup of AWS to be easier.

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it_user184458

Senior Technical Support Analyst at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Our previous solution was supported by a third-party. We saw the opportunity to reduce cost by managing it ourselves, in-house.

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reviewer1774125

Senior QA Manager Performance Testing & Engineering at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I've worked with a variety of service virtualization tools.we have not used anything from IBM. We don't use Azure, we use Amazon AWS. AWS as an IaaS or PaaS cloud solution.

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Itthiphol.e

Lecturer and Researcher at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not previously use a different product. We've always used AWS.

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Nouman Khan

Senior Solutions Specialist (Network & Security) at Ooredoo Qatar

I use Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud as well.

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Amarjit Rathee

Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

We have previously used older servers solutions from Dell, HP, and IBM.

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Frank Gerlach

President at Embedded Sense, Inc.

We did not use a different solution. We chose Amazon due to its good documentation and middle-of-the-road costs.

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Anoop Anoop SLK

Enterprise architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We have also used the Azure platform as well.

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reviewer1751898

Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We were using another solution. We switched to it because of its ease of use, ease of deployment, and cost.

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reviewer1024230

Senior Researcher at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I previously used Rackspace Openstack but switched because it required more manpower than AWS, and AWS is more cost-effective and tolerant.

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reviewer1719711

Co-Founder at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I previously used Azure. I was working for a company that used Azure CSP, but I prefer AWS.

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reviewer1672716

Chef manager at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use other solutions, such as Microsoft Azure for UID and Google Cloud services for DCP.

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reviewer1392516

Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Before Amazon, we did not use other products, however, we now also use Azure and Google.

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it_user716571

Architecte solutions Amazon Web Services at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Switched to be more global (AWS Region) and more to the way of a serverless paradigm.

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Gurudeva Kalledevarpurada B

IT Solution Architect at HCS

We have used Azure and some other applications. We will continue to use them. We like keeping 2-3 vendors to have a healthy competition and see improvements in the products.

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it_user72771

Info Sec Consultant at Size 41 Digital

I used to use Rackspace but AWS's innovation and range of products meant I swapped over.

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reviewer1214376

Founder & Managing Director Digital Solutions at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have used Oracle previously, and I don't see any difference between Amazon AWS and Oracle from the stability and availability point of view.

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reviewer1131864

Associate Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

AWS is the first cloud provider that we used.

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GregGum

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

We also occasionally use the Google Cloud Platform and Azure, although we tend to use AWS the most. GCP is a little bit cheaper overall, however, then you've got the cost of management that is typically a person so you do need to invest in that.

We started with Amazon and we've pretty much stayed with them. We've switched to Google and done some work on Azure that was customer driven, however, pretty much our prime public cloud has been AWS.

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reviewer1584264

Sr. System Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I didn't use any other solution previously.

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reviewer1526127

Director of Technology at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

We use Azure, just for backups.

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Osama Mustafa

Cloud Expert | DevOps | Oracle Consultant at confidential

Regarding to my work i am dealing with different cloud vendor all the time, but i never switch one solution to another.

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MADHAV CHABLANI

Consulting Chief Information Officer at Tippingedge

We have used other PaaS clouds previously.

The hospitals were available on Amazon. We have certain hospitals that were part of the group when it first started, but there are a lot of hospitals that are in the process of being acquired. Once the setup is acquired, it is extremely difficult and time-consuming for them to bring it through one enterprise architecture. Now, it is not necessary to have services from only one cloud service provider; instead, we can have services from multiple providers, and we are working to integrate the multi-cloud.

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reviewer1217268

CTO & Product at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

We did use a different solution, however, the company decided to move to AWS.

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reviewer930093

Director - Technology Operations at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

We migrated to Amazon AWS from the Data Centers.

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it_user178248

Owner at a tech vendor

We previously used in-house data storage (HD and NAS).

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it_user194427

Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Previously, I used co-location services. The reason I switched is quite obvious:

Cost
Constant overheads
Constant challenge of meeting budgets with consistent cutting edge technology

AWS has removed all these variables, and allowed me to concentrate on growing my services without having to worry about aging servers, or under capacity hardware, etc.

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Md Saiful Hyder

AGM, Enterprise Solutions at Omgea Exim Ltd

I've also used similar solutions such as Oracle and Azure. I've also dealt with Huawei.

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Sergio Zuastegui

Gerente regional de tecnologÃa at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

We also use SAP. In terms of SAP, I'm running all my servers on this IP at this moment. We have our development, our quality, and also production sites on it.

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FABRICIO BRITO

Scrum Master | Project Manager | SW Developer at Mobi7

This solution was already in place when I started with the company. AWS was in-place and they have never switched to anything else.

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it_user177156

COO at a tech vendor

We have hosted our SaaS offerings on various data centers in India and the USA prior to moving all the workload on to AWS.

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it_user660045

Google Cloud Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

AWS was sort of the first of its kind, so I did not use a different solution previously. However, today I find myself a lot more invested in the Google Cloud Platform, as oppose to AWS.

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it_user105252

CTO at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

I have used Amazon Elastic Beanstalk and Windows Azure. My primary choice to use AWS was because the prototype server stack was specified as an AMI (Amazon Machine Image). View full review »

Edison Macabebe

Chief Technology Architect - Agile/Devops Evangelist at Sandz Solutions

I would say that the Microsoft Azure interface is a lot slicker. But the last time I use it was around 2018. So comparing the interfaces in the dashboard views I think the Azure has the edge.

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it_user697047

Software Architect / Senior Software Engineer / AWS Cloud Architect / Azure Cloud Architect / DevOps Engineer at a tech services company

I've never switched to any other cloud provider, but I've tested nearly all of them. Testing all providers gives you a great chance to compare services. To be honest, most of the time AWS was better.

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Bhaskar N Subramanian

Founder Director at hobbycue.com

The development is primarily on Python, Node.JS, and Java technologies.

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reviewer1738722

PKI Policies Manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

We did use other solutions prior to Amazon AWS. We made use of local service and dealt with projects involving Google and Microsoft. We also used Microsoft Azure.

Not long ago we used Microsoft Azure, though this is necessary with some of our projects. We have different projects which vary with the customer's specifications. Some utilize Azure, although most require the use of Amazon.

When comparing Microsoft Azure with Amazon AWS, I do not see much disparity. It really comes down to a business choice. If the customer is familiar with Microsoft, then the testing team maintaining the product will need to be acquainted with it as well and its ongoing use is required. Similarly, Amazon will continue to be employed if this is already the case. As such, the difference betwen the solutions does not come down to considerations of a technical nature as they are largely similar. The primary consideration is one of business, the use of one solution and provider over another.

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Milton Ortegón

CEO at Fit Ideas

We tried using a Google cloud platform, but we had some configuration problems with some programs like WordPress.

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Sergio Yazyi

Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I previously favored RackSpace and Digital Ocean for simplicity and focus for certain use cases (development prototypes, proof-of-concepts, etc.). I prefer to concentrate investment and training on the same platform when solutions scale and require more complex setups. Leveraging the learning curve on the service offering is increasingly specialized.

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it_user77253

Architect at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

We have also use Terremark e-Cloud, but their cost and lack of features turned us off. I don't believe it was an either-or situation, though. We used both but are moving out of e-Cloud and are staying in AWS. View full review »

reviewer1759671

Technical Solution Architect

This is my first cloud product. I did not use something previously.

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Yogesh (Datamotive)

Founder at a tech company with 11-50 employees

We did not use another solution previously. We started using AWS.

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reviewer932685

VP at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We did not use another cloud platform prior to AWS.

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it_user701505

Analista de Projetos at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

For cloud solutions, during our research, we searched the best quality service inside our budget.

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it_user557982

COO - Chief Operating Officer

We did not switch yet. We maintain some minor operations on two other clouds.

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reviewer1406874

Consultant at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

We also use IBM.

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Karima Mechergui

Devops engineer with 1-10 employees

I did not use any other solution.

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it_user717240

Director of IT Projects - AngularJS developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Yes, I used OVH and other cloud providers like Azure or Google. AWS is much better. It is a complete platform.

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Carlos Mardinotto Junior

BI Expert at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have used Microsoft Azure.

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reviewer1061583

CTO at a hospitality company with 501-1,000 employees

We did use another solution previously. We used Horizon before. We also use some other data pipeline, however, they were more of a niche market cloud provider, unlike Amazon, which is more widespread and has a broader scope.

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Claudio Augusto Rosa David

Specialist Database Management at Claranet

I've worked with Azure and Oracle as well. A big part of our database is on Oracle OCI. It might be as much as 70%.

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reviewer1595568

Technical Content Writer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I have previously used Microsoft Azure DevOps and we prefer Amazon AWS.

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reviewer1261494

Vice President at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We've used Azure, we've used Google Cloud, we've used DigitalOcean, and we used SoftLayer. We're primarily using AWS because 75% or 80% of people use AWS, and we want our product to run optimized on AWS.

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Fran Maita

Analyst at 1980

I have never used a tool like this, and since its implementation I have seen great results.

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it_user645129

System Developer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Cloud is the way to go and it had more features than the competitors.

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it_user98079

CTO at a tech company with 51-200 employees

We used sporadic in-house machines, hosted services with different vendors. Reliability and ease of use were key. View full review »

reviewer1717506

Microsoft 365 Technical Solution Architect at a marketing services firm with self employed

I didn't previously use a different solution.

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reviewer931998

Assistant Professor at a university with 51-200 employees

I have used Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS together.

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Lucas Sain

Chief Technology Officer at SYSDE

We also use Azure and Oracle.

While AWS is more mature, Azure has updated its user interface and seems more modern in comparison.

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reviewer1381863

CEO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Previously, we did not use another solution.

We use our own server in the cloud or we use AWS.

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reviewer915609

Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We also use Lambda functions, such as trolling, multi-threaded, and compute as a service model. That is very interesting.

We liked it very much, and we use it for some of our clients.

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Ahmed Poshi

Vendor Management | Business Development at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Amazon is the leader in the public cloud categories, it has the largest market shares. I ask our customers why they're not using it.

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it_user433491

Cloud Architect, Oracle ACE, Oracle DBA at Pythian

For many of Pythian's clients, this solution is an amalgmation of on-premis and the cloud. Pythian enables its customers to reap the benefits of both worlds.

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it_user907665

Founder at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

Ours is a new company and we decided to go with AWS right from the beginning.

The most important criterion when selecting a vendor is their ability to help us get started as soon as we can. From the time we decide to deploy something to the time when the application is deployed, we look at which vendor will help us reduce that time.

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it_user722592

AWS Cloud Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No. I tried to use Azure, but I can't.

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it_user189768

Salesforce/Amazon/AWS Trainer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Yes I used Microsoft Azure but it only provides a free trial for one month. This duration is not sufficient to learn cloud services. Hence I switched to AWS as Amazon provides AWS cloud as a free trial for one year. That is an ample amount of time to grasp the cloud concepts and gain hands-on experience.

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reviewer1511115

Content Writer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are using OpenShift to combine two platforms.

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it_user593445

Full Stack Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We were using only AWS.

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it_user701412

Cloud Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

IBM Softlayer and Azure. Both are not automated to the level that AWS is automated.