We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Virtustream xStream based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."The product's scalability is good."
"The payment structure is very good."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"This solution is a good option if you are looking for cloud-based storage. Using a cloud-based solution, it is not required to accommodate a full workload. You can start with a basic version and scale up as needed."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the EC2 instance for web applications with CDN Networks."
"The installation and initial setup are easy."
"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."
"There is no downtime. The solution is reliable."
"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."
"In future releases, I would like to see more automation."
"While AWS often is at the top of my list to recommend to people, I always have to tell them, "Hey, you got to be careful because if they don't like you, they can shut you down in a heartbeat. And they can kill an entire company by doing that.""
"The security right now needs improvement. It's not bad, per se. It's just that there's always room for improvement in security."
"It has the technical support features, but they need to be improved. It has lots of users, but they need to be managed accordingly."
"There are some limitations for certain applications that happen regionally and it is an issue for us."
"It could be made cheaper. I know we spend a lot of money each month on AWS."
"There is a feature called Kinesis, which has to do with image processing. There are a few artificial intelligence tools that Amazon AWS should improve on."
"There's a huge cost for support."
"Our account representative was inexperienced, they could improve on how they are managing accounts."
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Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Virtustream xStream is ranked 20th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS). Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Virtustream xStream is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Virtustream xStream writes "Improves efficiencies, has encryption, and great mission-critical customer support". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Virtustream xStream is most compared with Microsoft Azure.
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