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Atilla Celiloglu - PeerSpot reviewer
Broadcast Technology Director at tv8
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
A very professional UI, easy to access, provides great security
Pros and Cons
  • "Easy to access and secure, two important features."
  • "The networking is overly complex."

What is our primary use case?

We are customers of Amazon AWS. 

What is most valuable?

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

What needs improvement?

The cost of the solution could be improved, it's quite expensive. I find the networking to be overly complex. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for four years. 

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Amazon AWS is a stable product.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable. 

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was complex because of the networking setup we needed to create. This could have been a problem with the networking site. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

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.

What other advice do I have?

I rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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reviewer1584264 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. System Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Easy to install and has good storage, gateway, and documentation
Pros and Cons
  • "The storage is most valuable. The gateway and documentation are also quite good."
  • "Its price should be lower. The price for in-house usage should be different from production usage."

What is our primary use case?

We have just started to use this solution. We are using it for Amazon S3 Bucket.

What is most valuable?

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

What needs improvement?

Its price should be lower. The price for in-house usage should be different from production usage.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon AWS for around a month.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I didn't use any other solution previously.

How was the initial setup?

It was easy to install.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Its price should be lower. Currently, the price is the same if you are working in-house or in production. If you have to do internal testing or you are checking if things are working in-house, you need to pay for that, and the price is the same. The price for in-house usage should be different from production usage.

What other advice do I have?

It is a good solution. I would rate Amazon AWS an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Information Security Officer at GlobalSign
Vendor
Do not need to maintain hardware on-premises and can have full control over the infrastructure
Pros and Cons
  • "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."
  • "Monitoring still needs to be improved."

What is our primary use case?

We are a product cocktail service company, and we deliver identity-based solutions that customers can subscribe to. The back-end infrastructure is hosted in AWS.

How has it helped my organization?

It helps us by saving money. Having a physical server on our premises is, of course, quite expensive as compared to building an EC2 instance in the cloud.

What is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

Monitoring still needs to be improved.

Better support for Windows Operating Systems would be appreciated. It is good for Linux but needs to improve for Windows.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been dealing with Amazon AWS for more than four years now.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We are experiencing 99.9% uptime already, so we have had no issues with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is scalable. We have configured our Auto Scaling options there, which enables us to install as the requirements increase. It auto scales the server.

How are customer service and technical support?

Technical support is okay. I will not rate it too high, but I think it might be because it is part of a basic plan. We do not have the enterprise support plan.

How was the initial setup?

You don't require much technical expertise to have an instance, so the initial setup is quite easy.

What other advice do I have?

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Amazon AWS at nine.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Global Data Architecture and Data Science Director at FH
Real User
ExpertModerator
Great cloud platform with scalability a key feature
Pros and Cons
  • "Great scalability."
  • "Could be more user friendly and include additional applications."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution for all modern application development and data-led processes as well as for building architecture, AWS Lambda and more scalable solutions for our clients on AWS cloud. I'm a practice partner of data analytics and AI.

What is most valuable?

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

What needs improvement?

I think the solution could be more user-friendly, like Microsoft products. They could include a lot more applications and make free resources available. I'd like to see more code application within AWS to build modern and good applications. A lot of cases we deal with need to write a lot of code in AWS and it would be helpful if there were designer functionalities.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for six years. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This is a very scalable solution. Most of the enterprises use AWS today, it's the number one cloud provider today. 

How are customer service and technical support?

AWS technical support is good. They have a partner that provides us with technical support. It's managed either by AWS or by partner support, and it's good. 

How was the initial setup?

Because the solution is on cloud, there's no real installation. You download to the cloud and login. When it comes to infrastructure positioning you need to have different teams. It requires some infrastructure support but it's fully managed by AWS. We plan to increase usage. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Licensing options are either a monthly pay for use option or a contract option.

What other advice do I have?

I would definitely recommend this solution. 

I rate this product a nine out of 10. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Senior Manager IT at OakNorth Bank
Real User
Top 5
Easy to set up, good support, and feature-rich
Pros and Cons
  • "The installation and initial setup are easy."
  • "We have had several issues with the products and services but as of now, there are no good alternatives."

What is our primary use case?

We use the AWS Cloud service for storing company-related information.

What is most valuable?

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

What needs improvement?

We have had several issues with the products and services but as of now, there are no good alternatives.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon AWS for the past seven years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I use AWS several times each day, and we plan to continue using it.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have 7,000 users on AWS.

How are customer service and technical support?

The technical support and customer service are good.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have also worked with Microsoft Azure and I find the initial setup of AWS to be easier.

How was the initial setup?

The installation and initial setup are easy.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

This is a subscription-based product.

This is not an expensive product but it would be an improvement if the price were cheaper. Google Cloud, for example, is cheaper.

What other advice do I have?

This is definitely a product that I recommend.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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reviewer1572765 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Scalable and easy to use with its own ecosystem
Pros and Cons
  • "Technical support is quite helpful."
  • "The solution could always be further improved on the commercial side of things. Amazon Web Services are not cheap. It would be ideal if it was less expensive for the customer."

What is our primary use case?

We have, for example, a big analytical platform running on top of AWS. We have many Lighthouse projects in the digital space running on AWS. We have so many things running on AWS. We use it for storage services. We use it for computing services. Its use cases are really very broad.

What is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

The solution could always be further improved on the commercial side of things. Amazon Web Services are not cheap. It would be ideal if it was less expensive for the customer.

For how long have I used the solution?

We've been using the solution for a couple of years at this point. We're a good AWS customer.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is very good. the performance is excellent. It doesn't crash or freeze. There are no bugs or glitches. Overall, it's excellent.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution can scale very, very well. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so without too much trouble. 

Currently, I would say, the number of end-users who use applications on top of AWS is only at about 1,000.

We do have plans to continue to use the product and to expand it in the future. We will be scaling it ourselves. 

How are customer service and technical support?

We've used technical support in the past. We've been very happy with them overall. I have no complaints. they are helpful, knowledgeable, and responsive. 

How was the initial setup?

There is no installation or implementation per see. It's a cloud service. You simply have to sign up.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution can get rather pricey. It should be more reasonable. It's our main complaint about the product - the total cost of ownership is just too high.

We aren't buying licenses, we are buying cloud services. 

What other advice do I have?

We are an enterprise with thousands of applications. We have really a broad mix of infrastructure. We have a technology standard list of several thousand products. We use a lot of AWS services. We're a customer and an end-user.

As a cloud-based solution, we're always using the latest version.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. We've been very happy with it overall. 

I would recommend the product to other users and companies. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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it_user1559967 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Tools Engineering & Security, Data Platform
Real User
Reliable, easy to scale, easy to set up, and the support is responsive
Pros and Cons
  • "It scales extremely well."
  • "Price can always be cheaper."

What is our primary use case?

Our use cases are essentially infrastructure provisioning for backend services. We also use it for environment automation. 

We use it for CIPD. So, this is like AWS Beanstalk. We use it for infrastructure provisioning, auto-scaling some of the container services as well, block storage, such as S3.

What is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

There are some subjective pain points, but we are pretty satisfied.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for six or seven years.

We are not exactly using the latest version. We are using what Amazon rolls out.

It's software or infrastructure as a service, so we use what Amazon has.

We don' use the beta products and try to stay away from them. We only use what is generally available.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's a stable solution. It's definitely reliable, we have run enough critical business services on it.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It scales extremely well. Most things are inbuilt. It is easy to scale vertically and horizontally.

How are customer service and technical support?

It also functions on a tiering level, and that is based on what kind of customer you are.

Internally, there is some tiering on which they respond to tickets. 

Overall the customer service support is pretty comfortable. 

They usually respond and resolve tickets fairly quickly.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is fairly straightforward.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

They have different pricing models for each suite of services. For example, if you are with EC2; E2 has spot instances and EC2 has on instances. You can pay upfront or you can reserve an instance.

You can pay upfront or you can on an annual basis for certain machines, and you can keep them up which you get quite a competitive discount.

You can take spot instances, as in certain predefined instances, that you can spin up when you need it, but those ten to be expensive because it's ad-hoc.

You can also just go with the normal EC2 instances that are charged at the usual pricing rate.

For us, it's use-case specific and we move between all three pricing options.

Price can always be cheaper.

What other advice do I have?

As a customer, I would wholeheartedly recommend this solution to others.

From our use cases and standards, most of the things are pretty much covered, so we're happy.

I've been pretty happy with my experience with AWS. I would rate Amazon AWS a solid nine out of ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Enterprise architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Stable with good native tools and a relatively easy initial setup
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution has very good Lambda functions within AWS."
  • "The pricing could be more competitive."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use the solution for our partner.

We are using it for moving all the banking and insurance domains from on-premises systems to the cloud platform, which is managed by services. It is right from data integration, data inception to data processing, to advanced visualization and analytics. We are also using the AI and machine learning aspects as well.

What is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

The pricing could be more competitive.

There need better integration tools whereby you could have widgets. It already technically has this, however, if they had widgets that could help with the journey from an on-premises legacy database management system, that would be ideal. There should be some accelerators that can convert and automate data pipelines into AWS so that users don't have to start from scratch. 

Basically, if we had accelerators and tools that can help fast track and leverage existing data schemas, models, and then also, data pipelines that are already set up, it would help items to be quickly migrated rather than doing everything from scratch on the cloud.

For how long have I used the solution?

We've used the solution for a couple of years. It's been a while.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability of the solution is very good. The product does not have any bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is the number one cloud product. It is extremely salable. A company shouldn't have any trouble expanding it.

From a user perspective, I would say from accounts, we are primarily into banking and insurance. We have around four to five of our banking accounts using it. They are a mid-scale bank. 

We do plan to continue using the product.

How are customer service and technical support?

Technical support is good. Overall, they are the number one cloud provider and they have an overall very high market capitalization. The support they have on offer is very good. We're satisfied with the level of service they offer.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We have also used the Azure platform as well.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is easy. It's not overly complex. The deployment depends, however, it could take a few hours to maybe a day, as it is platform and software as a service. It is all managed by AWS. The installation and management require a bare minimum configuration.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The cost structure could be better. It needs to be more transparent. After COVID, it is competing directly with Azure - which is a bit more of a cost-effective option. It's also competing directly with Google. If they were cheaper, they would be much more competitive in the space.

From a licensing perspective, the cost of ownership is based on usage. 

What other advice do I have?

We are consultants.

We are using the latest version of the solution. I cannot recall the exact version number at this time.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. We've enjoyed its capabilities so far.

I would recommend this solution to other companies and organizations.

There's a lot of due diligence which happens before organizations choose cloud solutions and then, of course, it needs to fit into the scenario. There is a cost-benefit analysis that has to be performed. It's a good idea to compare it to other platforms as well. Companies need to make sure it factors in the strategic landscape and the tools and technologies that the organization already has. If clients need assistance, we do participate in those strategic initiatives.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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