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View full review »When they first moved Amazon Seller Central to AWS CloudFront from AWS, I would see connections to Hong Kong and Singapore. Maybe I was sent there because the USA East was overloaded. I do not know. So, we started using Verisign for recursive DNS, and to host our own domain name(s), and I noticed, it fixed the problem. Every ISP and DNS server, either Unicast like Level(3) 4.2.2.1-4.2.2.6, Google 8.8.8.8, NTT was the best performer 129.250.35.250/251, Comcast was garbage, while on Comcast network 75.75.75.75, Verizon was good (FiOS [consumer and SMB], and Enterprise which is what we have aka MCI aka UUNET/Alter.net AS701/AS702/AS703), and SprintLink AS1239 was good. However, we just tested Sprint, and Verizon. Verizon provides backup services for us, actually tertiary, we provide our own secondary. So I signed us up with Verisign with DDoS protection, made Verizon secondary, and the feed server from us, feeds VeriSign and Verizon. That fixed the AWS CloudFront location issue, which to me, shows how poor AWS DNS is.
We would get responses that are AWS Hong Kong, even when they moved to CloudFront to speed up Seller Central (I complained to corporate via a letter FedEx'ed to Amazon). I asked for a private MPLS link, which we would pay for, and we were told it would be worked on. During peak times, it would lag and time out, it was awful. It still lags, but I route as much as we can via the BRAS setup.
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Nitesh-Sharma
Cloud Technical Program Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I also have experience using Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
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Some organizations consider Microsoft Azure Cloud or Oracle Cloud as alternative solutions.
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Sandeep Dhawan
Cloud Security Architect at Capgemini
We were doing some research on Oracle Cloud. Whether we are going to build the practice on Oracle Cloud or not, that's the call that has to be taken by my leadership.
View full review »If you compare Amazon AWS with other hyper scalers, such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, Amazon AWS is the most sophisticated cloud development platform.
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Bryan Wei
Director of Platform and Information Security at Brace Software
My understanding is that this product was used from day one. I don't think other options were considered. However, I was not at the company when AWS was implemented.
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Cyprian Oyiengo
Head of Implementation and Security at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
We reviewed the main three cloud providers: GCP, Azure, and AWS.
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Ado TIMAMO
Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I was aware of Google Cloud and Microsoft Cloud, but I chose Amazon because they have better products and more features. At the moment, Amazon is the leader in everything.
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Gurudeva Kalledevarpurada B
IT Solution Architect at HCS
We evaluated Azure, Apprenda, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
Some of our established clients are going with Azure, especially the ones who had established .NET VB environments. Those who need private in-house cloud are going with Apprenda or Pivotal Cloud Foundry. For small to medium customers, AWS offers a good choice and savings.
View full review »We have evaluated Lambda, and in some cases, it might be a better option than EC2. However, we have decided to go with EC2 because it is closer to a drop-in displacement which works better with our applications, for example, Spring Boot and other similar variations.
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JorgeHerran
Senior Devops at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I evaluated Microsoft Azure.
View full review »Azure is something that we are currently looking into as a second option, but there are no concrete actions planned.
View full review »I have evaluated Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
View full review »I also looked at Azure and it was deemed less reliable than AWS as AWS has not had as many outages and uptime concerns as Azure has had of late. Azure Function Apps, Data Factory, Managed SQL.
Besides Azure, I looked at GCP and VMs, Cloud Functions, Speech-to-Text transcription, BigTable, and BigQuery.
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Erik Najera Ruiz
AWS Certified Solutions Architect y Cloud Application Developer at Honne Services
The two alternatives I've considered are Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. However, because I am only certified in AWS, I don't know the difference between, for example, Microsoft functions in Azure and AWS Lambda functions in a commercial sense.
In a technical sense, though, AWS seems to be more comprehensive in the programming languages that it supports. For example, with AWS Lambda functions I can program in Python, PHP, Go, and many others, but with functions in Azure, you are limited to fewer options.
To our client, it's neither here nor there, because they're typically not involved in the actual development, but if you use Azure architecture then you're going to be limited to the programming languages that Microsoft supports.
We've evaluated other options as we use a variety of other solutions as well. We've evaluated a lot of other companies.
View full review »We did not evaluate other options. This was the one that management had chosen. I do not believe this was based on a technical viewpoint. I just think it was decided.
View full review »Try the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It is yet another good choice because sometimes, what you need is just a platform and not to build a platform from the infrastructure.
View full review »We researched Microsure and Google Firebase, but we are not using these solutions.
View full review »We did look at Microsoft Azure, but found that AWS had far more flexibility, options and ease.
View full review »I was working with Alibaba Cloud before I worked with Amazon AWS. Alibaba Cloud is comparatively more difficult than Amazon AWS.
I also evaluated Google Cloud and the main differences between Amazon AWS and these other products include how Amazon AWS was easy to use, user-friendly, and its infrastructure.
View full review »I evaluated Oracle Cloud, but it was more complex to use and provided a smaller toolset than AWS.
View full review »Yes,I study form this ,https://comparecloud.in/
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GregGum
Chief Executive Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Azure. GCP
View full review »I'm testing every major cloud provider regularly. Other than AWS, I've used Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Digital Ocean.
View full review »We didn’t look at alternatives, as it was the first cloud platform solution on the market at the time, at least that I was aware of.
View full review »We've used Azure also. They are all fairly good.
I looked at Google Cloud also, but I still would prefer AWS. It has automation and scripts that we can leverage. People are familiar with AWS, so it's our top choice for public cloud.
View full review »I have evaluated Microsoft Azure.
View full review »As mentioned earlier, since AWS was the first of its kind, I didn't really have many other options at the time. I remember one of the other players at the time was Rackspace, but they were considerably more expensive than AWS.
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I have used Azure, and Horuko.
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We also looked at Azure DevOps.
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Valeria Quintanilla
Manager of DevOps at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are compared AWS with Azure and IBM Cloud, but in the end, we decided to work with AWS.
View full review »We currently use Azure as well. AWS offers a very good platform mask and is easy to use. Azure is good for creating virtual machines and creating VLANs is very easy with the Azure site.
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Steve Drill
VP Platform Engineering at Hydrogen
We did look at other clouds, however, ultimately, we chose AWS. We've been extremely happy with it.
View full review »Not really, I fell in love with AWS right away: their services, quality and quantity of documentation. With the various testimonies that I received, I had no doubt.
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Sergio Yazyi
Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We evaluated Azure, RackSpace, Google Cloud, SoftLayer, DigitalOcean, and Linode.
View full review »I have evaluated Azure, and Google as IaaS. Quite honestly, Google was too convoluted for my purposes, and although Azure had some nice "Microsoft-y" features that AWS doesn't necessarily have, I still felt that it was much easier to get started with AWS, than it is with the other services.
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I personally have evaluated Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Neither seemed as robust or mature as AWS.
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Azure has better services for some aspects, and Google GCP has obviously got some competing products. I think each provider has its benefits, advantages, and disadvantages.
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SathishKumar
Project Specialist at integra software
We evaluated Azure and other products.
We explored using Microsoft Azure and another cloud, but we did not implement either one.
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Osama Mustafa
Cloud Expert | DevOps | Oracle Consultant at confidential
None
View full review »I was evaluating different ways to incorporate RPA.
View full review »Azure, Google Cloud. AWS is years ahead of its rivals.
View full review »I haven't done any evaluations or comparisons with other products.
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Muhammad-Junaid
Consultant at Skill Orbit
I recently evaluated the Oracle Cloud Platform, and I find that Amazon is more expensive.
View full review »We evaluated other options, including Rackspace, Google Cloud, MS Azure, etc.
View full review »My company considered not only one provider, and it was really a complicated process to review all the providers. We had our checklist of all necessary requirements, and it was quite complicated. We chose AWS because of its advanced features that let us do everything quickly.
View full review »We did not evaluate any alternative solutions.
View full review »We did not evaluate any other products before choosing AWS.
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Fran Maita
Analyst at 1980
I was evaluating other avant-garde options but none were better than Amazon AWS.
View full review »Before choosing this product, we also evaluated Microsoft Azure.
View full review »I have evaluated Google cloud.
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Venkateswarlu Paturu
Service Delivery Manager / Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We did evaluate a couple of other products like Google Cloud and RTCloud, but our customers decided to go with AWS.
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Different cost analysis of hosted services and co-locations.
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We looked at all the cloud platforms. AWS had more breadth in the services they offered.
View full review »I also evaluated Microsoft Azure.
View full review »We evaluated Microsoft Azure.
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Amazon AWS
April 2025

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