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Amazon AWS vs Knack comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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
260
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 14.3%, down 15.1% compared to last year.
Knack, on the other hand, focuses on Rapid Application Development Software, holds 0.9% mindshare, up 0.4% since last year.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon AWS14.3%
Microsoft Azure8.7%
Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode)7.1%
Other69.9%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
Rapid Application Development Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Knack0.9%
Microsoft Power Apps7.8%
Oracle Application Express (APEX)5.0%
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

"AWS is incredibly stable."
"Amazon AWS is the most powerful tool and is at the top for cloud and for virtualization."
"Very good automation and very stable."
"In summary, this is definitely a product that I recommend because it's stable and the capabilities and features are better than some of the competitors."
"So far, so good, it has met every challenge we have provided, it has worked, never failed, we have never experienced any kind of downtime, and we are very happy so far."
"AWS is effortless to configure and has high availability."
"The product is highly scalable."
"It's very stable and the performance is good."
"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

"There should be improvement in terms of creating databases of varying sizes which would provide flexibility."
"One thing that Azure offers that I think is good is Migrate appliance. So, Azure has a migrate appliance that allows you to run against workloads to determine the cost, preparedness, and scalability. I haven't found a similar feature in AWS. That kind of service would be great on AWS too if you could point it to the data center."
"More complete and specific training for many of the technologies, specifically with Python Django and the CMS (Mezzanine)."
"I think Amazon AWS could be improved cost-wise, as the expenses can be considerable."
"There should be seminars and online training sessions available from AWS because a lot of people who are not using it would benefit from having the basic knowledge or basic hands-on experience."
"They should implement the command shell by default. As it is now, to open the console, you have to download the command application."
"What I would like to improve about Amazon AWS is the pricing, which is quite expensive for us, and we would definitely try to lower our spending because we are using quite a lot of our budget on Amazon AWS."
"The interface could be improved."
"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

"Maintain a good budget, plan the consumption"
"It is comparable if you add in the price structure to an on-prem solution."
"I think they've done a pretty good job with their pricing."
"One of the best-kept ways to reduce costs is to develop it on serverless technologies with AWS Lambda, SNS, DynamoDB, and S3."
"It is very expensive, you have to be very cautious."
"The prices are a bit high."
"The price could be lower."
"The Oracle licensing is higher than it is with Amazon AWS."
"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

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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
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Construction Company
12%
University
12%
Educational Organization
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business131
Midsize Enterprise48
Large Enterprise120
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