What is our primary use case?
We are both a user and a provider of services to some of our clients. We are not official partners, but we provide regular services to set up our clients' infrastructure on AWS. We deploy their projects there with their own account so that we can hand over technical ownership whenever they need it. As a result, they can continue to provide their services to other consultants. we offer these services to set up their systems and their services.
We use Amazon AWS mostly for typical hosting for applications, some emails, queuing services, and databases most of the time.
What is most valuable?
I am not sure what features they'd like.
AWS has large community support. You are never stuck with anything if something doesn't work in time.
What needs improvement?
We don't have any issues for the time being, because I intend to use this in a limited, not exhaustive, manner. For the time being, we're fine with whatever we're doing.
The billing should be more competitive.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Amazon AWS for more than two years.
As AWS is online we are always using the most current version. We have some virtual machines that you create based on the version when you initialize them, but the services that you use on a daily basis are always the most recent version.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have a limited number of users and use standard services.
How are customer service and support?
There have been no issues. The support is good.
There are no issues at the moment.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We were hosting on bare metal servers. Then we moved on to VPS servers, which were managed by our technical staff. And now we're utilizing cloud services.
That technical management part for the multiple VPS, as well as for ourselves and our client, is taking a long time to maintain and everything. As a result, we went to manage services.
These are some additional options. I've seen that Azure has the best cloud dashboard, but the billing and other features are very difficult to use. The same as any other cloud service. The documentation is far superior.
How was the initial setup?
The installation is straightforward.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Cloudflare and other services are developing more affordable solutions. They provide a much cheaper alternative to Amazon's S3 storage buckets. That's something that could be improved.
This should be comparable to the other options on the market.
Billing for cloud services can be difficult at times. In the VPS, you only have quota-based billing management, but in the cloud, it's as if every bit and byte and every I/O operation is metered, and your bills can be surprisingly high when you've published something that can attract a lot of traffic, which is one catch.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We researched Microsure and Google Firebase, but we are not using these solutions.
What other advice do I have?
I'm not an expert. I don't have any advice at the moment, but whenever they're looking to host some applications, when there's a lot of traffic or bandwidth, they should think about it carefully.
I would rate Amazon AWS a seven 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)
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.