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Arctera Insight Platform
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Data Governance (61st), Compliance Management (31st)
ClearScale Windows Server 2025
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
2
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AWS Marketplace (429th)
ECS-Optimized Windows
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9.0
Number of Reviews
3
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AWS Marketplace (73rd)
 

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reviewer2858658 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Automated hardening has standardized our servers and reduces effort for secure Windows workloads
The first-boot time is longer than a stock Windows AMI. Sysprep and the initial hardening pass add a noticeable delay before the instance is reachable, which is something to account for if you autoscale and need nodes ready quickly. The hardened defaults also occasionally trip up common installers and agents. A few of our deployment and monitoring tools assumed services or policies that the image had locked down, so we had to add exceptions. A short compatibility checklist of what the hardening changes from a default Windows install would have saved us that debugging. I would also like the option of a CIS Level 2 build for our more sensitive workloads since the image currently only ships a Level 1 baseline. Thanks.
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Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Preconfigured containers have cut licensing costs and now save our team time with faster booting
ECS-Optimized Windows can improve by giving us new generation instances rather than the old generation's AMD chips or other older technology. It should use the new generation instances, and it should also modernize the storage and the file systems that it is using because those are very old and sometimes problematic. It should also improve or add advanced configurations to the things that we are doing so it can help us and give us more efficiency and productivity in our team. It should give us good analysis, particularly more detailed analysis, with the AWS tools because it is operated by AWS. It is cloud-based, and we are getting it from AWS, so they should also integrate it with AWS better.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ECS-Optimized Windows?
I think ECS includes licenses, so it reduces the stress. Also, the cost is very low, at $0.04 per hour per version of...
What needs improvement with ECS-Optimized Windows?
ECS-Optimized Windows can improve by giving us new generation instances rather than the old generation's AMD chips or...
What is your primary use case for ECS-Optimized Windows?
My main use case for ECS-Optimized Windows involves utilizing the machines offered by AWS, which means a workload lik...
 

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