Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services

705 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Web Services	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing services. With over 165 services offered, AWS services can provide users with a comprehensive suite of infrastructure and computing building blocks and tools.	$100 per month

Pricing

Amazon Web Services

Free Tier: $0
per month
Basic Environment: $100 - $200
per month
Intermediate Environment: $250 - $600
per month
Advanced Environment: $600-$2500
per month

Pricing Offerings
Amazon Web Services
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

AWS allows a “save when you commit” option that offers lower prices when you sign up for a 1- or 3- year term that includes an AWS service or category of services.

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	Amazon Web Services
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Michael Bravo Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Engineering at Wix (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Amazon Web Services In my personal experience, AWS is superior to both GCP and Azure in the majority of usable applications. GCP suffers from the near total misunderstanding of how support system is even supposed to work, and while _some_ services are pretty nifty and well-polished, some are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Web Services AWS stands out in its ability to adapt technology more quickly. All the new features, first adapted by AWS, make it the market leader. The key metrics, such as MTTR, are among the best among all other cloud service providers. The AWS dashboard and analytics features are very … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services Lambda supports more triggers, richer language/runtime support, and has tighter integrations with Amazon Web Services, as compared to Azure/Google Cloud Functions.Amazon Web Services also has better global infrastructure, with 33 regions and 105 availability … Incentivized Helpful? Karan Jaitak Infrastructure Engineer in Engineering at Credit Suisse (Banking, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon Web Services We tried various other cloud providers and features provided by them. Many of the cloud providers have similar features but there are few factors which make Amazon Web Services cloud as preferable choice of our bank are cost, location of Amazon Web Services datacenter where it … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Nemeyer Senior Associate in Finance and Accounting at Rock Creek (Facilities Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon Web Services Prefer Amazon Web Services over the competitors Incentivized Helpful? Arvind Kumar Senior Software Engineering Lead in Engineering at Optum (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon Web Services Apart from Amazon Web Services, we use Microsoft Azure in some of our projects. I have some basic experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as well. If given a choice, I would prefer using Amazon Web Services over Azure or GCP. I find provisioning of resources relatively faster … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Web Services we feel that Azure is a little more clunky and not as user friendly as the AWS model. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services is better among all of them due to its performance, stability, security and navigation. It effectively saves the cost and provides better facilities than the other competitors. It plays great role when it comes to user friendly interface. It also provided … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Web Services AWS has the largest market share and most established and over 200 services for diverse needs. AWS has a very power user interface and pay as you go work well that others. AWS has the by far largest network of data centers for low latency and high availability. The regular … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Web Services Better global availability and use across industries. AWS has a great ecosystem of experts, developers, solution architects and it helps to get to know them at various AWS events across the world Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Web Services Ive only used amazon web services for cloud computing, and the decision was made by the CTO. Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member in Engineering at Jombay (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services is much more mature than all of the cloud service providers out in the market. It has 300+ services that solve almost all of your cloud problems. Incentivized Helpful? Amro Misbah DevOps Cloud Engineer in Information Technology at Cloudypedia (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon Web Services Compared to other providers like Google Cloud Platform(GCP) and Microsoft Azure, [Amazon Web Services] has a wider range of services, which help you easier implement the solution you want. Also, they have been in the market for more years than their competitors. Moreover, they … Incentivized Helpful? Sreedhar Sree Sr. Automation QA in Machine Learning in Quality Assurance at Wells Fargo (Banking, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon Web Services Amazon SageMaker is being extensively used by our R&D department for machine learning models development and research purposes. We work in Jupyter notebooks hosted on SageMaker notebook instances rather than notebooks hosted in local machines by doing so most ML algorithms … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Web Services Terrible. Same as above. Incentivized Helpful? Debobrata Bose Solution Architect in Information Technology at Danske Bank (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon Web Services I feel AWS usage of services by global clients has been the most compared to Azure or Openshift. AWS service offering's and usage are economical and much more secured. Its has build an ecosystem of providing all the services capabilities under one umbrella . It provides … Incentivized Helpful? Kenny McGarrity IT Infrastructure Manager in Information Technology at Pace Supply (Wholesale, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Amazon Web Services The decision was made to go with AWS because of name recognition and familiarity by contractors we hired. I checked out Google Compute Engine a few years ago, and it did have similar option set, however Google in general was behind Amazon's offerings. Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Chhajed Software Engineer in Information Technology at Atlantis (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services fits best for all levels of organisations like startup, mid level or enterprise. The services are easy to use and doesn't require a high level of understanding as you can learn via blogs or youtube videos. AWS is Reasonable in cost as the plan is pay as you … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services is well suited when we have a huge amount of data to store, process, manipulate and get meaningful information out of. It is also suitable when we need very fast data retrieval from the database. They provide a superior product at a fair price which allows … Incentivized Helpful? Gnanasekar Mani Project Engineer in Information Technology at Wipro Limited (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon Web Services Both the services are in the field for quite sometime. And the biggest competitor of Amazon Web Services is Microsoft Azure. Though, Azure easily connects with Microsoft services like a jelly, even in AWS its so easy. And the best thing is due to its vast variety community … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services has a much more seasoned and known set of tools. The learning resources and documentation is much more prevalent and applicable to more scenarios which definitely helps with implementation. Google cloud does offer comparable products, and the user interface … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Web Services We evaluated Google Cloud and Azure at the beginning of our cloud journey but at that time, AWS was so far ahead of the other public cloud providers that there was no question about whether or not to go with AWS. They have the broadest catalog of services and their support is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Web Services We have investigated Azure as well, for this specific need it made the most sense to go with [Amazon Web Services], the design was much simpler to get going. We have also used Azure for some of the other deployments that we have done with SaaS systems. These are the two … Incentivized Helpful? Salwat Hamrah Co-Founder in Social Media at Get Beyond Limits (Hospitality, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon Web Services Our tech team was comfortable with Amazon Web Services and that is why we started with Amazon Web Services. In the meantime, we searched for other services like Amazon Web Services but it seems that facilities like Elastic Bean and the first year free made us stick to Amazon … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Amazon Web Services

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Web Services
Feature	Amazon Web Services 8.3 68 Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	9.364 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	9.065 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	9.761 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	7.457 Ratings
Monitoring tools	7.065 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	6.658 Ratings
Operating system support	8.463 Ratings
Security controls	8.366 Ratings
Automation	8.717 Ratings

User Ratings
	Amazon Web Services
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (80 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.4 (10 ratings)
Usability	8.5 (11 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.2 (24 ratings)
Online Training	7.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (3 ratings)