Amazon Web Services (AWS) vs SolarWinds

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Based on 1592 reviews.
SolarWinds
Based on 351 reviews.
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Overview
Amazon Web Services, a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, make up a cloud-computing platform offered by Amazon.com. These services operate from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services arguably include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon S3. Amazon markets these products as a service to provide large computing-capacity more quickly and more cheaply than a client company building an actual physical server farm.
SolarWinds Inc. develops enterprise information technology infrastructure management software for IT professionals. In 2007, SolarWinds raised funding from Austin Ventures, Bain Capital and Insight Venture Partners. SolarWinds completed its initial public offering of $112.5 million in 2009. In 2012, SolarWinds' total revenue reached $269 million. In June 2014, the company purchased the Swedish web-monitoring company Pingdom.
Sample Customers
Amazon Detective
Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Amazon CloudWatch
AirAsia, Airbnb, Aircel, APUS, Avazu, Casa & Video, Futbol Club Barcelona (FCBarcelona), National Taiwan University, redBus
AWS X-Ray
COMCAST, ConnectWise, skyscanner, AirAsia, cookpad, cimpress, VTEX, zowdow
AWS Auto Scaling
Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
AWS CloudFormation
Nextdoor, Coinbase, Expedia
AWS Config
Flatiron, Prezi, iZettle, British Gas, Burt, Autodesk, FanDuel
AWS Systems Manager
Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
AWS License Manager
Xero, Pearson
AWS Application Discovery Service
Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Amazon Inspector
betterment, caplinked, flatiron, university of nutri dame
AWS Secrets Manager
Autodesk, Clevy, Stackery
AWS Security Hub
Edmunds, Frame.io, GoDaddy, Realtor.com
SolarWinds NPM
Microsoft, Federal Express, Hewlett-Packard, and MasterCard
SolarWinds AppOptics
TraxoCovea Insurance BTE TechnologyDatarista
SolarWinds Security Event Manager
NetSuite, EasyStreet, Legacy Texas Bank, and Energy Federal Credit Union, to name a few.
Samanage
SXSW, PRA Group, Fandango, Inteva Products, Amherst College, Tensator
Solarwinds Papertrail
Product Hunt
Loggly
Lenovo, Pizza Hut, Care.com, USGA, Citrix, Neustar, Lucidchart, Samsung, Sendgrid, AKQU, Ebates, EA
SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server
Holy Cross Energy, West Texas A&M University, Medium Enterprise Industrial Manufacturing Company
SolarWinds Kiwi Log Viewer
1. Atlassian 2. Cisco 3. Dell EMC 4. Google 5. IBM 6. Intel 7. JPMorgan Chase 8. LinkedIn 9. Microsoft 10. Oracle 11. PayPal 12. SAP 13. Siemens 14. Spotify 15. Tesla 16. Twitter 17. Uber 18. VMware 19. WeWork 20. World Bank 21. Xerox 22. Yahoo 23. Zynga 24. Accenture 25. Amazon Web Services 26. ATT 27. Cloudflare 28. Facebook 29. Gartner 30. Hewlett Packard Enterprise 31. Salesforce 32. ServiceNow
SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor
Andr. L. Riis AS, NetSuite
Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor
commscope, COCC,
SolarWinds Pingdom
Spotify, MailChimp, Slack, Twitter
Dameware Remote Support
Illinois School District
SolarWinds Dameware Remove Everywhere
Accenture, Emerson, Lockheed Martin, Nielsen, NTT
SolarWinds Kiwi CatTools
Delta, Educational Institution, Kalamazoo
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager
United Lincolnshire Hospitals, Air Rarotonga, NetSuite, Thai AirAsia, REA Group, 335th Signal Command, Agilisys, Marine Expeditionary Force
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor
NetSuite, Youngs Seafood, APS Bank, Sven Meinks
SolarWinds Passportal
InfraNet Solutions, Securus Systems, Nehring Technologies, Doberman Technologies, Show Tech IT Solutions, CRC Data Technologies, Logically
Popular Solutions
Top Industries
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
14%
Educational Organization
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Educational Organization
41%
Computer Software Company
9%
Government
6%
Comms Service Provider
5%
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