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Amazon AWS vs Knack comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon AWS
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
259
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (2nd), PaaS Clouds (2nd)
Knack
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Rapid Application Development Software (35th), No-Code Development Platforms (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Amazon AWS and Knack aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Amazon AWS is designed for Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) and holds a mindshare of 15.1%, up 12.8% compared to last year.
Knack, on the other hand, focuses on Rapid Application Development Software, holds 1.0% mindshare, up 0.3% since last year.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon AWS15.1%
Microsoft Azure8.6%
Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode)7.8%
Other68.5%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
Rapid Application Development Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Knack1.0%
Microsoft Power Apps7.8%
Oracle Application Express (APEX)4.9%
Other86.3%
Rapid Application Development Software
 

Featured Reviews

Asif  Meem - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at sportsbet
Managed cloud services have helped accelerate experiments with flexible configuration options
Sometimes the costs associated with spinning up a service, especially managed services, have implications. For example, if I create a Glue job, that will create S3 buckets and other resources that have cost implications, but once I clean up a Glue job, it does not delete the other accessory resources. Sometimes, I have to go hunting for what resources Amazon AWS might have provisioned and how it is costing behind the scenes. It can be complex depending on your level of expertise. It is not as easy to get started, especially when it comes to secure practices. Amazon AWS is more hands-on than other platforms.
it_user1460940 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at ITdirector.ie
Flexible and granular security options, good filtering, and the pricing model is cost-effective
The vendor does a really poor job of marketing this software because it should be more popular. This is something that I have pointed out to them. It's a super piece of software, but very few people are aware of it. I am an EX-IT director and I've worked in big systems, and I'm amazed this solution isn't more popular. The "native" integration with other products could be improved. The user interface for the systems that you build can use some improvement because as it is now, you may have to use HTML and CSS to make it look more modern or to match a clients existing look. The documentation is amazing, although they don't do videos and their YouTube channel is very poor. They could create some training videos.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"This is a great cloud platform and scalability is an outstanding feature."
"The main feature that I like the most is the variety of solutions that it provides. It provides some analysis, business information and more. It provides a wide variety of services."
"Amazon AWS is easy to use, scales well, is flexible, and when compared to Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure, it has almost all of the features."
"We have been able to leverage the agility of AWS to work faster and, in some cases, fail fast so we can get on to the next thing, which works."
"I use Amazon AWS to host services for my clients, as well as creating SMTP services for them."
"Overall, the solution is quite complete."
"For those who are looking for a way to streamline replicating data (e.g. objects) from an AWS bucket in one region with a bucket in a different region you now have a new option."
"This solution offers a very detailed dashboard that has some metrics, such as performance and budget."
"The security is the most valuable feature, in particular, the way I can give different access to different areas to different people, so you can really fine-tune access for different users."
"Overall, I am a big fan of Knack."
 

Cons

"If you are familiar with other cloud infrastructures, you can see that it is in need of some enhancements."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"Customer Service: Could be made much better"
"AWS support could be better. It could be faster and straightforward."
"Billing for cloud services can be difficult at times."
"As a result of the competency, I believe that most people are now leaning toward Azure rather than AWS."
"The technical support can take longer than expected sometimes. They could improve on this."
"What is hard with the public cloud service like AWS, is ensuring you maintain a good budget."
"The user interface for the systems that you build can use some improvement because as it is now, you have to do a lot of HTML and CSS to make it look modern."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is reasonable."
"The pricing is reasonable. It's not expensive, nor will it be cheap, but the free credits initially given provide leverage for new companies to start their businesses."
"When it comes to professional certification in AWS, I implore others to study hard before your exams because $300 is a painful waste of money if you fail."
"Some customers will provide their own license and others will purchase it directly from AWS."
"They have a pay-as-you-go subscription."
"One of the best-kept ways to reduce costs is to develop it on serverless technologies with AWS Lambda, SNS, DynamoDB, and S3."
"The Oracle licensing is higher than it is with Amazon AWS."
"The pricing of Amazon AWS is high compared to any other cloud provider."
"This product has really good value, as it doesn't have a per-user cost, there's a flat fee."
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Comparison Review

it_user8586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Aug 14, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
16%
Construction Company
13%
University
13%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business131
Midsize Enterprise48
Large Enterprise119
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