Amazon AWS Valuable Features

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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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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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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Amazon AWS
April 2024
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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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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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Graham Zabel - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of DevOps at Devoteam Management Consulting

I am impressed with the solution's EC2 EKS. 

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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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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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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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PK
Data Center SME at Orange España

The best thing is scalability.

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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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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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AT
Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is the backup ability. Most people are used to one type of backup solution that they're using, but most of these solutions have features that make it difficult to transfer to the cloud. I know that Veeam now gives people the opportunity to backup some on-premises solutions to the cloud. This feature is something that a lot of people are looking for. 

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CH
Managing Director at Erste Group

I'm not the developer, so I cannot judge the services provided by AWS, but we run our mobile banking application on AWS. Database-wise, it's heavily based on Elasticsearch, so this is probably one of the main features that we find most valuable. Aside from that, I'm not familiar with which AWS services we are using.

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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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it_user836085 - PeerSpot reviewer
I help CTOs/Managed Service Providers save 7%-55% on AWS bills with AI. at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Serverless computing: This can be more cost-efficient just regarding computing resources than renting or purchasing a fixed quantity of servers, which involves periods of underutilization or nonuse. It can even be more cost-efficient than provisioning an autoscaling group, because even autoscaling groups are typically designed to have underutilization to allow time for new instances to start up.

Also, a serverless architecture means developers and operations specialists do not need to spend time setting up and tuning autoscaling policies or systems. The cloud provider is responsible for ensuring that the capacity meets the demand.

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Steven Odera - PeerSpot reviewer
Independent Contractor at Legacy Lighthouse Ltd

The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the EC2 instance for web applications with CDN Networks.

AWS Cloudfront is the official reference for the Global content delivery network (CDN) which significantly reduces latency or slow loading times.

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

The solution's API Gateway is very good.

The storage on offer is excellent. 

Recently they improved a lot in the analytics that they have on the backend. 

It's great that the product is completely serverless. 

The implementation for end-to-end, for Lambda serverless implementation, is excellent. I do run about 16 million messages per day with their Lambdas, for my API microservices.

The initial setup is not difficult.

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

Using AWS is really helpful for saving costs. We used to have to budget a lot for hardware costs, but now we have EC2 instances that are based on the requirements. For example, if you want one CPU then the cost is based on that, whereas if you require more, then it is automatically included.

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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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FlorianPriede - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Account Manager Premier Services at Hyland

Scalability is one of the biggest benefits we have.

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AM
Global Data Architecture and Data Science Director at FH

This is a great cloud platform and scalability is an outstanding feature. It's very useful. 

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

The flexibility of the solution is excellent.

The ease of use is great. You can bring something up very easily and tear it back down just as easily. 

Our first system is about to be released. It's our flagship and it's going really well.

The solution scales up extremely well.

They're spinning up and going faster. Anything and everything would you ask for in terms of your feedback they take back and build it and the next thing you know the feature you wanted is available.

The product has a lot of new functionality.

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

Amazon AWS is easy to use.

It scales well and is flexible.

When compared to Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure, it has almost all of the features.

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RN
Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

The product is very easy to use. It's flexible.

It's the leading cloud platform in the world, and it has a very wide variety of services.

The product has a very good ecosystem of its own. 

The product has proven itself to be very stable.

The scalability of the product is great.

Technical support is quite helpful.

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RM
Director, Tools Engineering & Security, Data Platform

It's a suite of services. There is no one thing that you can pinpoint and say that this is the most valuable.

AWS definitely works for us.

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WT
Senior Cloud Consultant at GBM

Apart from the infrastructure as a service, the AWS Lambda, which functions as the service FaaS, is really powerful. 

It's a powerful way of quickly assembling or developing applications, which can be scaled immensely and also at a fraction of the cost because you are charged per the execution time of each function. If you are writing a small function as an AWS Lambda function, then you are paying only for those milliseconds for the time at which it runs. 

It's a very cost-efficient way of running applications in the cloud rather than running an EC2-compute instance, which is charged by the hour or by the minute. You typically have to keep the EC2 instance updating all of the time. Whereas in functions, a function is invoked only when a user is calling it. Or, the front-end is calling the backend function. Lambda is very powerful and it is also typically used as a mobile backend. Essentially, it's a very strong API-based backend for mobile solutions.

It has many choices of computer options, storage options, and even database options.

It's flexible, you can run any kind of workload on the infrastructure.

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NK
Service Delivery Manager at Orange

We pretty much like everything and we are excited about the seamless capability the EC2 service is offering.

We are mainly using VPC, EC2 instances, a bit of S3 and NAT Gateways, and NAT Instances.

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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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SJ
Director Of Sales Marketing at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool. 

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CO
Head of Implementation and Security at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees

AWS's containerization is the most useful feature for us. 

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RJ
Founder CEO at PROZM Knowledge Services Pvt Ltd

The features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service.

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Tristan Bergh - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The security has great IAM, roles, and carefully partitioned permissions that allow us to fine-tune control across our applications. External intrusion attempts will never get past application boundaries, which increases trust.

The composition of apps has everything wrapped according to function and applications. We can assemble services as we go. This speeds delivery times by orders of magnitude.

The price forecasting and billing dashboard by service, with billing budgets and alerts, have helped us shut down resources that were accruing costs that we no longer needed, saving us money.

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RG
Senior Manager, Engineering at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

One of the features offered is scalability on demand.

It's user-friendly.

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NH
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at Refinitiv

The most valuable feature is that it is simple. We don't use complex services for our small business customers.

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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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AK
Senior Manager (Engineering Department) at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are ease of use, deployment, and short lead time. If you are using an on-premise solution, you need to wait for the hardware, and nowadays it is very difficult, the lead time becomes very long. We propose to our customers to use Amazon AWS because it is very easy, no need to wait for hardware delivery.

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BS
Principal Consultant at High Sierra Consultants

Macie is great. It is a service that makes recommendations on a data layer for cybersecurity. It is a great service.

Its elasticity is good, and I haven't come across any problems with it. So far, everything has been good.

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MB
Manager, Technology at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Amazon is easy to upgrade, easy to expand storage and change your EC2 types. Each of those things usually takes at most five minutes to do, whereas on a legacy system you have to actually buy a new system or new hardware and have downtime for installation. Even then it may not be configured the same way and you might end up with a widespread outage. The advantage of using AWS is that all the testing's been done so you have proof that it works. We still do a cursory check, but they don't put anything out there that hasn't been vetted. Plus all the Atlassian tools are on AWS as well. The cloud instances they provide have a very robust network because there are over 160,000 companies that use the tools. Backups are really easy to access as are the automated backups of the VMs and the volumes. We're able to create a new volume from a backup in about two minutes, attach it to the server and view the data side by side to compare the old to the new. It takes 10 minutes total to get all the access needed.

I've had very positive experiences with AWS and it's gotten a lot better over time with their improved interfaces. Everything's all interconnected now and within its own framework. We pull in other tools to the OS such as Docker but AWS provides tools like Yum that enable quick installation of things. It's typically part of the OS. 

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GS
Product Owner for AWS and DevOps at Sunlight Financial

I like the IAM, the directory, and the storage.

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CS
Sr Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Fed Yunis Zapata - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Solutions Architect at Canvia

AWS has a lot of services that are very good. One of the services I use is AWS Transit Gateway. This service allows me to communicate between different networks in different accounts. It's good for network communication. The other service I use a lot of is "Control Tower", it's a service used to organize the different accounts our clients have.

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Naresh Rayakwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead architect at Tech Mahindra Limited

Amazon AWS is easy to use and in the past two years, I've never had any issues with scalability or stability. 

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Rodrigo Bassani - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Technology at Elogroup

The most valuable features are CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, CodeBuild, and CodeCommit. We use them to deliver our solution.

The services that we are using have frequent updates, at least twice a year. They provide a new version that has more capabilities or features that fit our process and procedures.

I am an integration specialist and Amazon AWS always seems to be a step ahead of the competition when it comes to the solutions integration abilities with its services.

EventBridge is a tool provided by AWS and it enables integration with the API gateway. We are using it as a solution to our projects and with our clients to integrate with external features, such as B2B or B2C. The Amazon API gateway integrates with EventBridge and other messaging layers. It is a highly integrated solution with those platforms.

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

Some of the valuable features I have found to be the virtual server is easy to understand, a secure environment, and AWS has a fast community for finding solutions to problems you might be facing.

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BW
Director of Platform and Information Security at Brace Software

AWS is a cloud platform. There are hundreds of tools within it. The cloud handles the updates so we never have to worry about looking for the latest version of the solution.

The solution offers a low footprint. We don't have to come up with a data center ourselves. We basically don't have to own any hardware. We just rent a slice of their platform and we have everything we need.

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it_user677697 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Auto Scaling and CloudWatch Logs are the most valuable features. With just a few criteria to scale in/out of, you can save the life and time for DevOps.

The CloudWatch Logs feature provides many plugins, so that we are able to manage various types of logs centrally.

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Sohail Iqbal - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Architect at Orison Tech

I am not sure what features they'd like.

AWS has large community support. You are never stuck with anything if something doesn't work in time.

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Julio Cesar-Cunha - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Sales Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have many projects where we can resolve a lot of issues with Amazon AWS. It has given customers a lot of visibility with their data. Many customers do not know what they can learn from their data and I provide them with this using useful information using Amazon AWS. 

The Redshift features are very useful for large amounts of data. 

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SD
Integration Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

I like AWS for its scalability, reliability, and availability, and it's much more mature and user-friendly compared to some other cloud providers. The learning curve and time for deployment are also shorter.

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Alexey Timchenko - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Vice President Information Technology at TASC Towers

The product offers a lot of functionality. 

Our vendor who provides us a specific core application uses AWS and it's just simple for us if we use it too. 

The initial setup is straightforward.

The solution has been issue-free. It's very stable and the performance is good.

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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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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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Daniel_Marin - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at Generate Impact

It offers a lot of tools, which we leverage. 

At the moment I'm using Lambda service and also AC2 machines - as a platform as a service and infrastructure as a service.

The pricing model is good. It's pay-as-you-go. You only pay for what you use. 

The solution offers a lot of very helpful documentation. There's also a great community that surrounds it that is quite helpful if you have questions or want to learn something. 

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LF
CTO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Amazon is a really good solution with high performance. They offer more connectors than some of their competitors, such as Microsoft Azure.

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IR
Lead solution architect at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees

It is easy to use.

It has many features that we use.

It integrates well.

They upgrade a lot of applications.

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PS
Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

I value the automation and the stability of this product. Whether it is S3, EC2, the LSG, ASG, for us it's all good to implement.

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SM
Vice President - Services at Locuz Enterprise Solutions Ltd

It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required.

Another thing that really attracts us is the pricing, which is based on the actual consumption of resources, and that's what really helps us.

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Jai_Prakash - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager IT at OakNorth Bank

The cloud-based infrastructure has several good products that people normally use.

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AM
Senior Technical Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are mostly using EC2 compute and other resources. Most of our managed services are in AWS, which some of our clients prefer.

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it_user184458 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Support Analyst at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
  • ECS (EC2 Container Services)
  • EC2
  • RDS
  • Route 53
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NV
Senior QA Manager Performance Testing & Engineering at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Everything in AWS is valuable? AWS itself is valuable in multiple ways. Whatever I use is valuable, which is the reason we use it.

It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house.

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Osamah Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Global Creations Pakistan

What I liked most about Amazon AWS are its services and infrastructure. They're good. It's a very user-friendly platform. Its servers are also more reliable than others.

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ET
Customer Success Manager - Architect: Cloud and Data Platform at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The cost of Amazon AWS is similar to Azure and has the same value. It is a user friendly solution.

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Itthiphol.e - PeerSpot reviewer
Lecturer and Researcher at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is very stable. Its reliability is great.

We've found the product to be very easy to use. 

The solution is scalable. 

The installation process is very simple.

Technical support is very good. 

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NK
Senior Solutions Specialist (Network & Security) at Ooredoo Qatar

Everything is good. 

It is easy to use.

The performance is good.

It's also very economical.

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KC
Technical Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The reason I like AWS is that they have a large market share and a large presence. When it comes to our use case, a big positive is that MuleSoft and AWS are working together very well. So instead of competing against each other, they're meshing together.

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DN
Assistant General Manager, Information Technology & Infrastructure at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees

It is quite easy to provision new virtual services for our use. The procedures are quite straightforward and simple as compared to other competitors, such as Microsoft or Huawei. This is what we are happy about with Amazon AWS.

It is pretty mature in terms of the availability of most of the infrastructure components. If you want to deploy a server on your platform, everything is already there in terms of the operating system, network components, securities, and data encryption. It is also quite scalable and stable.

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ES
Chief Technology Officer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Glacier is one of the solution's most valuable features.

The initial setup is straightforward.

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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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VQ
Manager of DevOps at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

AWS is easier to implement than other solutions, and it's more reliable. 

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

Amazon AWS has improved a lot on security and is very good. Additionally, You can integrate your own security into their AWS platform.

The reporting and analytics monitoring are very good features and we are using them extensively.

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FG
President at Embedded Sense, Inc.

The solution has very good documentation.

The initial setup is simple and straightforward.

The solution is scalable.

The stability has been good.

We have found the technical support to be helpful and responsive. 

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RG
Information Security Officer at GlobalSign

We use AWS in-built services like EC2, ECS, Lambda services, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, etc. AWS is a very big platform that provides a lot of services.

The main reason why we use EC2 is because we are not dependent on maintaining the hardware inside our premises. Also, we have full control over the infrastructure, and we can modify it as per our own requirements.

It is stable and scalable as well.

Installation is quite easy.

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

We have been using the data ingestion. 

There are native tools which are AWS Glue, which we are using for data integration. 

We also use the Spark and Python-based integration which are both very good. 

The solution has very good Lambda functions within AWS.

We also use AWS Redshift for data modeling along with the integration with Snowflake.

The solution is very stable.

The scalability is excellent.

We've found the initial setup to be quite simple and straightforward.

Technical support is pretty good.

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SS
Sr. Technology Specialist at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I like many features, like the recently released useful analytics features. There are many from the data analytics or database side.

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FM
Corporate IT Applications Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We have not had any problems at all. 

In the 4 years that we have been using  IaaS services from Amazon, we have not had any issues.

It's a great IaaS cloud. They are the leaders. No cloud provider can match Amazon right now.

Other providers are improving year over year, but Amazon is still ahead at least two years.

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SD
VP Platform Engineering at Hydrogen

Every aspect of the product is excellent. We have no complaints.

The reporting aspects of the solution are excellent. 

The documentation that is on offer is very good.

The initial setup isn't too complex. A company shouldn't have any problems implementing the solution.

The stability is very, very reliable.

The payment structure is very good.

The scalability is excellent. There aren't really any limitations

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EN
AWS Certified Solutions Architect y Cloud Application Developer at Honne Services

The AWS feature that I most enjoy is Lambda functions. I primarily use serverless components because they allow you to process things without having to compromise on resources like when running EC2 instances or virtual machines. With minimal effort, you can scale up an unlimited number of processes, even concurrently, to process things. I frequently work with web APIs, so I use Lambda a lot in this area.

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CF
Lead Cyber Security and Hybrid Cloud Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

The features that we have found most valuable are IAM, KMS, and Security Groups for customizable security. Cloud formation for well-defined blueprints is also useful.

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

It is easy to spin up resources.

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

The features I have found most valuable are S3 buckets and Lambda services.

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

One of the most valuable features is that Amazon AWS has a lot of data centers and regions where we can position our virtual machines for leverage. Amazon AWS is also easy to use. You can quickly spin up something, use Explorer, building proofs of concept, things like that. Once the proof of concept is built once and we know how things are going to look from a production perspective, we try to move everything to the data centers. These features and the ease of use are the main reasons why we use AWS. 

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

The maturity that the solution offers is its most valuable aspect. It was one of the first solutions to market and has a long track record. It's very mature in terms of product delivery. 

It is very stable.

The scalability is great.

In terms of features, it's very feature-rich and it's got a good ecosystem from third-party vendors as well in terms of those that partner up with them for offering their services on Amazon. 

The security is good. Due to the fact that it's on the cloud, you can build your own security to meet your needs. It's enriched with great security features and capabilities. You just need to know how to run them. 

Technical support is quite helpful. 

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HB
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution offers a very detailed dashboard that has some metrics, such as performance and budget. You can find all the documentation on how to do almost anything. It supports multiple services where you can use Linux. Depending on your use case, you can also manage the allocations, for example, your hard drive and memory.

Additionally, the solution is user-friendly, has intuitive dashboards, and plenty of graphs and charts available.

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TD
Senior consultant at NTT Security

Almost everything is good. It is a whole ecosystem. It is not only the storage, computing, or networking. It is interesting in the way all things are combined to form this ecosystem. It is a very well-built and logical ecosystem that has some small building blocks. These building blocks can be used in the right way to build a much bigger ecosystem that is robust, secure, scalable.

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it_user1379073 - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Engineer at Commonwealth Bank

There are a lot of features that I really like including ease of deployment, ease of build and release, and also that it is heavily focused on a PaaS or SaaS model. All I have to worry about is my application and not about the infrastructure.

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it_user716571 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architecte solutions Amazon Web Services at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Amount of services, fully-managed services, and the power of Infrastructure as code (deployment and automation). AWS has many atomic services (Lambda, SNS, SQS. and so on…).

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GK
IT Solution Architect at HCS

Features such as EC2, S3, EBS, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), RDS (Relational Data Service), Cloud Front, Cloud Formation, Elastic Bean Stack, etc., have been useful for the following reasons:

  • EC2: Supports various operating systems, CPU configurations, helps to produce flexible computing power at affordable, customizable rates. You pay for only what you use. No need to pay for unused extra capacity. Build only what you need and pay for only what you use. It can help save tons of dollars in infrastructure cost.
  • S3: Low cost, affordable, yet modern storage solution from Amazon.
  • EBS: Low cost, yet fast storage solution. It helps to store the needed data in the quickly accessible storage. Also, it helps defending against DDOS attacks.
  • Auto Scaling: Helps to quickly scale up, or scale down the capacity as needed. This would help in adding and/or removing computing capacity as per the need and helps reduce cost, yet provide a quick response as needed.
  • Elastic Load Balancing: Helps to build redundant, waiting systems for which the demand can be routed as needed.
  • VPC: Helps to define our own private cloud with marked input and output ports. Also helps in reducing the electronic footprint and defend against DDOS attacks. Helps to define the private cloud which will provide the needed security and privacy.
  • RDS: Helps to dynamically manage the database services. Helps to independently select and/or switch among various database providers such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, etc. RDS helps to free up administrators' time by automating tasks such as backup, maintenance, applying patches, scaling, and replication.
  • CloudFront: Helps to define cache of data across various locations and helps to improve the latency of applications.
  • Cloud Formation: This is the much needed tool for technical architects. Here one can define the technical architecture they need and play around with it until they get a working architecture. Then the working architecture can be copied, reutilized among different regions, business units, clients, etc. This saves cost and time, reduces errors, and improves efficiency. A much needed tool for administrators and architects.
  • Elastic BeanStalk: Helps to rapidly deploy applications across various platforms such as Java, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Python, Docker, etc. It also handles load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.
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it_user72771 - PeerSpot reviewer
Info Sec Consultant at Size 41 Digital
  • S3 storage buckets
  • Glacier storage
  • EC2 instances
  • Cloud Trail API log storage
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JM
Founder & Managing Director Digital Solutions at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Amazon AWS has a better portfolio. They have an impressive technology and service portfolio.

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

This is a highly available solution with a good API.

The documentation is very good.

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JH
Senior Devops at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

One feature I find most valuable is the easy deployment by using the channel model for  serverless architecture. Another feature I find valuable is the versatility of the service S3 because it allows you to give permissions to describe the users from their own accounts, from external users, or external accounts.

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ES
Head of Data Projects at Cognitivo

I like that the products are specific and objective. We can resolve a problem using a simple configuration. It's so easy to implement a solution and solve a problem using AWS solutions. AWS has a lot of specific solutions for different use cases. I think that this is the most important thing that made us consider using AWS.

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

We use the AI/ML Sagemaker to help us build models. 

We use several feature services on AWS, including Lambda, S3 database, RDS database, Alexa Voice Services and Cognito Gateway. They are all excellent in terms of offering great functionality.

They're pretty good about taking customer feedback and are generally able to productize the requested feature.

The initial setup is straightforward, especially if using Lightsail to start.

The solution scales very nicely.

The stability is good with a large number of Availability Zones WW.

Technical support is helpful and responsive but you must pay for a tiered support plan to ensure response.

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

The storage is most valuable. The gateway and documentation are also quite good.

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

It's a flexible solution.

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OM
Cloud Expert | DevOps | Oracle Consultant at confidential
  • Lambda.
  • Alex development edge.
  • CloudFormation.

All of these features I've used heavily provide the best solution for any client.

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MADHAV CHABLANI - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Chief Information Officer at Tippingedge

In general, Amazon's performance is good.

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

I'm happy with the solution.

It's very easy to use. 

The stability and performance are great.

The scalability of the product is great.

Technical support has been great.

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

Amazon AWS contains a lot of helpful services. 

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NL
Audit Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

I like that it helps us do everything really fast, and its advanced services.

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it_user178248 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech vendor

The price point and ease of use are the most valuable features. The cost per GB per month has always been reasonable. 

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it_user194427 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The whole IaaS model is an invaluable service. The ease of deployment, maintenance, and scalability, and pay as you go model make AWS an amazing platform to build on.

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SG
Digital Services- Cloud Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable thing about AWS is its ease of use and agility. You can quickly deploy it, and there are no upfront costs.

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NB
Software Architect at AIOPS group

One of the most valuable things about it, besides the stability, is that you can forget about infrastructure because you're just doing it on AWS. I remember the times before AWS and other cloud solutions existed, and it was a huge pain to get real hardware, put it inside, configure everything, report everything, and do a scale. It was very, very difficult compared to how it is now. Not even just AWS, but what all these cloud providers are doing, I would say, is a huge advancement in technology. 

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ES
Regional Business Manager - North Latam - Public Sector - Amazon Web Services (AWS) at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I think machine learning is one of the most used and most valuable services, especially in scientific research. The solution is evolving all the time. 

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WC
Architecture and Solutions Specialist at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees

Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good. 

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VG
Systems Architect at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've built several AI ML solutions and done lots of work on the GPUs available on Amazon servers. We did a lot of work around web spidering, natural language processing, and machine learning or deep learning workloads. 

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VK
Cloud Solution Manager

This solution is used as the basic requirement for any virtual machines use cases, the storage is used for each use case.

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

Amazon, in terms of cloud infrastructure, is really robust.

The product is scalable.

They provide cutting-edge features compared to other cloud vendors. 

They offer many services that are unique to AWS

The availability is a good feature. They have certain criteria. For global virtualization, if you want to scale and operate across the world, AWS can provide the infrastructure without limiting the performance. They have those provisions such as availability. 

In terms of latency and other things, AWS is great.

The online knowledge base is very helpful and has a vast amount of information for users.

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

The scalability of the product is the solution's most valuable feature. It expands very, very easily.

I don't have any complaints about the configuration capabilities or the interface.

The pricing seems to be good.

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SK
Project Specialist at integra software

It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations.

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FB
Scrum Master | Project Manager | SW Developer at Mobi7

The most valuable feature is the availability, as we work in different availability zones.

It has been easy to use, and the tools included are quite friendly.

The reliability and ease of use are the benefits.

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it_user177156 - PeerSpot reviewer
COO at a tech vendor

We have deployed a variety of services from AWS. Most commonly EC2, EBS, S3, Lambda, Elastic Search, RDS and NFS Gateway.

The cloud storage based on S3 is one the most valuable services we have deployed since it allows us infinite scale in storage and extremely high durability.

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it_user660045 - PeerSpot reviewer
Google Cloud Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Elasticity has always been AWS's mandate. The flexibility of their platform from a systems perspective lives up to its claims.

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it_user105252 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
Dynamic usage and flexibility in choosing configurations. Also the fact that Amazon’s security team is much larger than anything I could ever assemble gives me reliance that this run time environment is going to be more secure than anything I can deploy. View full review »
JR
Project Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Amazon has a much better understanding of the workflow of data scientists and machine learning processes. This is seen by their SageMaker which offers different versions of the models to be used.

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VP
Director at HALL MARK GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES

The scalability and security of Amazon AWS are the most valuable features.

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Shehzad Ali - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security and Compliance Officer at Carnation

The solution has a vast array of features and services. It offers many upgrades. 

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ET
Senior System Administrator at KnowledgeNet

The most valuable features I have found are the Database Migration Service (DMS) for monitoring the host and routing, Route 53, and EC2 tools. The DMS is not available in any other solution that I am aware of. They have a very flexible and professional solution.

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PK
Chief Operating Officer at FarEye Digital Logistics

The main feature that I like the most is the variety of solutions that it provides. It provides some analysis, business information and more. It provides a wide variety of services.

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EM
Chief Technology Architect - Agile/Devops Evangelist at Sandz Solutions

The experience with Amazon AWS is error-free. That was also, of course, something that I really appreciate. That means it's really well-tested and, as published or as declared. So it works as-is. I think the interfaces are really quite usable and something that I think is user friendly.

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it_user697047 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Architect / Senior Software Engineer / AWS Cloud Architect / Azure Cloud Architect / DevOps Engineer at a tech services company

I have been using almost every service on AWS for years. I'm trying to test every new service as soon as possible.

The main idea of using AWS is its ability to act so fast! We used to have servers on-prem data-centers. When you needed a new server/device/configuration, it could take hours/days/weeks based on the demand. Now I can have what I need in couple of minutes. That is amazing!

Of course there are other cloud providers, but AWS is far the best on both technology and stability. You can find cheaper providers, but you shouldn't risk your business just for saving some dollars.

AWS gives you chance to concentrate on your business and products which I believe is the most important thing, especially for start-ups.

Here are the services that I'm currently using on AWS:
EC2, ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, S3, EFS, Glacier, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Redshift, CloudWatch, CloudFormation,OpsWorks, VPC, CloudFront, Route53, IAM, Certificate Manager, ElasticSearch Service, WorkDocs, WorkMail, SQS, SES, SNS, and API Gateway.

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BS
Founder Director at hobbycue.com

We write a lot of Lambda functions for various services, as well as serverless functions.

We use Amazon S3 to store a large amount of data and images.

We also use Amazon DynamoDB Database for many of our developments.

Many of these features are already available on AWS. We're just getting started, and we're still learning a lot.

The performance is good.

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KP
Technical Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The feature that's most valuable depends on your use case. Elasticsearch is good for testing and DynamoDb for database applications. There are so many things I could name, but you have to go with the service that is right for the use case you are looking for.

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Mitul Rajput - PeerSpot reviewer
GM COE at Anuntatech Management Services Ltd

The solution has been stable. 

The solution can scale well.

Implementing the solution is very simple. 

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

I especially like the flexibility and scalability of the solution. It is totally scalable. 

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MO
CEO at Fit Ideas

It's easy to manage. We can use a wide range of technologies with AWS.

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

Accelerates innovation through fast experimentation cycles in an agile, flexible, and scalable platform.

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it_user77253 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
The features which are most valuable are EC2, S3, and the networking functionality. EC2 allows me to provision new servers in minutes. S3 allows me infinite, redundant, easily accessible storage. The networking functionality (VPC, Security Groups, subnets, etc) allow me to create robust networks that make sense. Availability Zones allow me to design systems that are resistant to failure. View full review »
LW
Technical Solution Architect

The functionality and the UI are both very straightforward.

The initial setup is straightforward.

The stability is good.

Technical support is quick to assist.

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SK
Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The features that I have found most valuable are its cloud storage and compute services.

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GauravGupta3 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & Solution Architect at Fluidech

It is intuitive, easy to deploy, and rather quick to deploy and set up. There are a number of native services in the ecosystem. These services are built into the cloud and are mature enough to support you in many ways.

It is relatively secure and definitely reliable for uptime.

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EG
Service Management Department Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The features with Amazon AWS that I have found most valuable are its flexibility and high availability. These are the most important and attractive points for me.

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IA
Senior Software Engineer at consol gulf

The dashboard is very good.

The solution in general is user-friendly and easy to navigate.

The product as a whole is very intuitive.

The initial setup was quite easy.

The product is reliable and quite stable.

The solution is fine for static hosting.

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Yogesh (Datamotive) - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at a tech company with 11-50 employees

We like the on-demand pricing.

The ease of use is the biggest benefit.

They deliver in terms of features.

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GM
Senior Field Application Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

They are enterprising and pretty good in terms of features. It has good security. Its availability is also pretty good. It is available everywhere in the world.

It has pretty good integrations, and it is working well. They have done a lot of improvements, and its UI has improved a lot.

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CF
Cloud Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It isn't easy to choose a feature as it all depends. For example, there might be a feature for a specific use case. Amazon has many use cases and many deployment types. But overall, Amazon AWS is user-friendly and intuitive. It's also quite secure. The interface is okay and integrates well with other products.

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SR
Senior Information Security Analyst at a recruiting/HR firm with 201-500 employees

I think Amazon AWS is easy to use, and it's a good service. I also like Amazon EKS because it's good.

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GS
Associate (System Planning) at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

AWS is easy to manage.

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SB
Senior Architect, Technology Transformation Group at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution is very easy to use.

The product is nice and stable. Its performance is great.

The technical support has been good.

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CF
VP at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The most valuable feature is scalability, as it is very easy to scale.

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KB
Co-Founder at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

We like how the scalability is kind of built-in. It has a dynamic scaling capacity which is very helpful. 

The dashboard allows us to configure the amount of storage we might need — It's sort of predictive. It predicts the kind of consumption that we are anticipating, which is a very helpful feature. These are some of the things that we gravitate to. 

They're pretty economical as well, regarding bite and gigabytes storage. They have a very economical approach compared to other storage services.

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it_user701505 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analista de Projetos at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The valuable features for us are scalability and flexibility.

Regarding scalability, we have specific days of the week that the traffic in our system exceeds more than twice the load system. So with the scalability, I can support this load. If I need to perform a specific marketing action, my system will respond to the request easily.

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it_user557982 - PeerSpot reviewer
COO - Chief Operating Officer

Our system is conceptually very simple. We organized the network to grow. The most valuable resource is the elastic feature which allows us to not worry about rising or declining demand.

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Roberto Dalt - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Information Systems Engineer / CIO at Azienda ULSS 2 Marca Trevigiana

Its scalability is powerful. We are providing services for people to schedule an appointment for the vaccine and for COVID testing to see whether they are positive or negative. In one night, we can have 240,000 people in one minute to schedule an appointment. I am very happy with the scalability.

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ManuelVallejo - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Cloud Management has been a valuable feature. It depends on how we meet our business challenge head-on with the cloud computing services because sometimes you find that the computing is working fine with Google, and sometimes it's Azure, and sometimes it's Amazon.

One customer is going to work with Azure, and the next year they'll change everything and work with AWS because in our environment the most sensitive data is kept in the on-premise environment the majority of the time. It's more frequent that you can find an environment that has hybrid implementation.

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AY
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Amazon AWS is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features.

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DC
Consultant at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly.

The performance is great.

Everything is very clear and there are no complex procedures to follow. it's a very easy-to-use solution. 

The integration is very good. Integrating anything with it is easy to do. 

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DC
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is enough for us in terms of features. We don't have too many transactions, and it is sufficient for our current needs.

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KM
Devops engineer with 1-10 employees

I like that is very easy to use and that it's flexible.

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RK
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

If there are issues, I come and check on them, however, I rarely use the solution, which suggests it's pretty problem-free. It works pretty seamlessly.

The initial setup is very straightforward and I didn't have any issues with configuring the solution.

The solution can scale quite well.

Technical support is pretty decent so far.

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it_user1107327 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director at Microland Limited

The most valuable features of this solution are Compute, Security, Database, Media, Management, and Governance.

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it_user717240 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of IT Projects - AngularJS developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

AWS provides a lot of solutions to design secure, elastic and serverless software architectures.

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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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AP
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I like the storage, all the codes like Lambda and Amazon EMR.

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

So far, the stability is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's one of its great selling features.

The performance of AWS is excellent.

The cost-effectiveness is something we appreciate. It isn't too expensive for us to leverage AWS.

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RR
Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist at WonderLend Hubs

RDS (Relational database service), specifically Aurora. It offers durability, high availability, fault tolerance, and a high TCO benefit.

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JC
Works at Ti Consultores SAS

IaaS with easy management, but training is required in a more personalized way. There should be required free training from the vendor and more personalized.

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OC
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I like ETL, the EC2 platform, and Route 53. These features are a great complement to the basic infrastructure of any company. The AWS platform has many features, but the fundamental cloud infrastructure is the most important.

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OD
Senior Information Technology Manager at a mining and metals company with 201-500 employees

Amazon AWS has good performance and easy management.

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SY
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution is very easy to install. In a few clicks, you get what you need.

The solution is stable.

The scalability is very good.

Technical support is helpful and responsive.

The initial setup is easy.

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AC
Broadcast Technology Director at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

This solution is very easy to use and it has a professional interface. It's easy to access and is secure, two important features. 

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VP
Service Delivery Manager / Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The compute and the elasticness of the compute is really great. Whenever there's a load, it automatically adds the servers and then reduces the servers based on the configuration. This is really wonderful, more cost-effective, and it's been really good for us.

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VK
Assistant Manager at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have found the trusted advisor tool works well, we are using it to get some insight into the security status and the processing of the applications. Additionally, the portal for management has clear well-written documentation.

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RC
IT Staff Manager at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees

The capacity to grow dynamically based on our needs is most valuable. We can increase resources dynamically. It is also very reliable and fast to implement.

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SK
Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

It is very easy to set up. It is also easy to use. 

It has a lot of services and integrations. We've been able to integrate whatever we need until now.

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CS
Arquiteto de Soluções at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It has several valuable features, but the load balancer, auto-scaling, and RDS database are the main ones. It is a complete cloud infrastructure solution.

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Claudio Augusto Rosa David - PeerSpot reviewer
Specialist Database Management at Claranet

The services on offer are good.

I use the RDS a lot.

I've recently implemented more systems on Amazon. They integrate well with various other solutions.

Managing databases, and moving them from on-premises to the cloud is easy.

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Hammad  Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager at S2 Consulting Services

The most useful feature of Amazon AWS is it can be accessed from anywhere.

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

AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time.

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AT
Regional Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've been using EasyTune for elastic computing and it has been very helpful. It's the feature we're using the most right now.

In general, the solution works quite well.

The product is very easy to set up.

The stability of the solution is very good.

The solution scales well.

Overall, the solution is quite complete. There aren't any missing features.

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it_user1065 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of Data Center at a integrator with 51-200 employees
Few things I admire about this whole AWS service by Amazon are 1) Provides persistent block storage volumes 2) Excellent load balancing features for servers 3) Excellent support on all types of relational databases, for example Oracle etc. 4) Awesome repository of operating systems from Ubuntu, Slackware, Microsoft Servers etc. 5) The virtual private cloud feature is an amazing add on for the service View full review »
JP
Chief Technology Officer at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

I like S3, load balancers, and Route 53.

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EK
Sr Lead Data & Information Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It's quite stable and scalable. The price is good as well.

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

I like that it's easy to use.

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MJ
Consultant at Skill Orbit

The most valuable features are load balancers, databases, and S3 buckets.

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FM
Analyst at 1980
  • Cutting-edge design
  • Ease of use
  • Market adaptability
  • Accessibility
  • Creator guarantee
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it_user645129 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Developer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
  • EC2 Container Service
  • RDS
  • SQS
  • SNS
  • SWF
  • DynamoDB
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • S3
  • Cloudwatch
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it_user98079 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech company with 51-200 employees
All of them in different scenarios, hard to tell. View full review »
it_user6696 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Comprehensive Cloud platform offering, with a huge ecosystem of ISV partners, great selection of pre-built images, and much more!! Pricing cannot be beat, and new features and reduction in price are always in the works. View full review »
MZ
Head of ICT Infrastructure at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

AWS is constantly growing in features with every new version. It's a good cloud provider with excellent availability. The integration is good, and their security products are interesting. Amazon is always innovating and delivering new products to customers.

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

The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Amazon AWS is. 

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GH
Assistant Professor at a university with 51-200 employees

Amazon AWS is very user-friendly.

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LS
Chief Technology Officer at SYSDE

The scalability of the product is excellent. 

The solution is pretty mature.

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VC
CEO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

In terms of features, I would rate it a nine.

This is a product that is easy to use and highly available. The availability is good, you can get any service you need immediately.

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FV
SAP Platform Security Consulting at a security firm with 1-10 employees

The best features are flexibility and cost.

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GJ
CTO at a construction company with 11-50 employees

The most important feature is deploying our production in multi-data regions around the world.

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

My experience with AWS has been good. AWS is a good vehicle to get your business started without too much of an upfront investment.

I like the flexibility of this solution. It's quick ramp up, ramp down, being able to provide the resources at a click of a button. 

If you wanted to try a new solution or try it out for a Proof of Concept then provisioning the EC2 and the S3 buckets is very quick.

In addition to that, the sums of scaling operations.

The dashboard is very easy to use.

Its real-time support is pretty good.

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

There are many benefits to AWS. For our customers, it optimizes their TCO. In terms of  computing, they can scale up and out. 

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VM
Digital Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is very good at analyzing data services.

The initial setup is easy. The deployment is fast.

We really enjoy working on something that is based in the cloud. It makes things easier.

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it_user843717 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior TV and Media Consultant at Ericsson

For testing, it is a cheap alternative to having to build your own labs.  Provisioning and resource administration include billing dashboards, which are very extensive.

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AM
Network & Server Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
  1. Spin up the server when we need it: We can spun up the new server. 
  2. Elastic IP: Sometimes, our website gets hacked with malware and it is easy to change the IP of the Instance.
  3. Snapshot: We can easily create a snapshot in Amazon AWS, then restore it.
  4. RDS: Manages all the database queries.
  5. Instance upgrade and downgrade: We can easily upgrade and downgrade the Instance.
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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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MC
Gerente TI at Tecdex

I think the AWS interface is good. It's easy to understand and use. 

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SC
Assistant Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I like everything about AWS, especially the reporting.

I am happy with the dashboard.

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it_user79092 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
EBS, Availability Zones, VPC, Support for high I/O instances View full review »
OE
Enterprise Solutions Executive (AWS Certified Solutions Architect) at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The ease of use is the solution's most valuable aspect for us at this point.

You can manage everything from the console, which is very convenient. 

The high level of technology of the database services being served to the customers is impressive. 

The security is excellent. We feel very protected by the solution.

The solution is very easy to set up.

The product is highly scalable.

There is very good documentation available to users for troubleshooting, et cetera.

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it_user433491 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect, Oracle ACE, Oracle DBA at Pythian

The RDS renders deployment agility and there is an on-demand database-as-a-service for MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server.

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VT
Data Science Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn. The main services that are offered and used most often are easy to use.

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LA
Utilities WAM consultant at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

The most valuable feature of this solution is the S3.

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it_user787548 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder with 51-200 employees

Bidding on instances with dynamic pricing. So, I can do something that is not critical in terms of speed, like a production system, but testing and bid at an uber low price, and I will usually get what I want.

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it_user897 - PeerSpot reviewer
CSO at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Quick to set up, dynamic pricing, very good support. View full review »
EF
General Manager with 51-200 employees

The interface of the solution is good.

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it_user907665 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
  • It's pay-as-you-go.
  • It has a breadth of solutions for databases, data mining, AI.
  • They release new solutions almost every quarter and you don't get that kind of innovation from an enterprise company.
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it_user722592 - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Cloud Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

AWS's innovations are incredible.

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it_user317559 - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux administrator with 10,001+ employees

750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux t2.micro instance usage (1 GiB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) -- It's enough hours to run continuously each month.

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it_user189768 - PeerSpot reviewer
Salesforce/Amazon/AWS Trainer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

EC2, EBS, Security, and RDS services are all good.

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CL
Data Analyst at a tech company with 51-200 employees

The solution works very quickly compared to the SQL Server on Tran, and we can access it from anywhere. It's very well managed. 

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

It has a lot of features to keep up with.

It has good reporting and documentation.

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it_user1158 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer at a tech company with 51-200 employees
- Amazon Web Services offer a very low pricing option based on usage, with no up-front payment. - Amazon Web Services can be used as a Content delivery network, as Amazon has multiple data hosting centers spread across the globe. - Amazon Web Services is a highly secure durable technology platform, for hosting all your applications over the cloud. The AWS storage facility is very scalable and grows and shrinks as per your needs. You only pay for the exact usage and not more. - AWS is a not dependent on any programming language or any kind of operating system platform. You are free to choose the development platform or programming model that is suitable for your application and business. You can also decide what services you want to use and how to use them. This takes the burden of focusing on infrastructure off your shoulders. - There’s less IT infrastructure staff to manage. View full review »
SK
Database Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

There is less work for the DBAs. Everything is handled in AWS itself.

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it_user859389 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Advanced Computation and Storage LLC

There are no particular 'features' which stand out. 

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AR
Technical and Solutions Executive at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I like that all of the features are complimentary. I use all of the features together.

It's very user-friendly.

There is nothing that needs changing.

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MA
CloudOps Leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Since AWS came a bit later to the market, they are always improving and upgrading their platform.

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AJ
Founder & Chief Operating Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's very easy to use.

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it_user593445 - PeerSpot reviewer
Full Stack Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Elastic Load Balancer: AWS completely manages ELB with less configuration from the users' side. Setting up the load balancer manually is really a headache.

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it_user701412 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • RDS: Because of its auto-scaling, multi-zone availability, and its quick spin up of database servers.
  • EC2 Servers: For the agility of server provisioning and the AMI automations.
  • Lambda: Because of AI capabilities by writing functions that trigger on events.
  • Route 53: For traffic engineering.
  • WAF: For security and multiple other features of AWS.
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Amazon AWS
April 2024
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