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Amazon Web Services (AWS) vs Box

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Based on 2213 reviews.
Box
Based on 41 reviews.
Overview
Amazon Web Services, a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, make up a cloud-computing platform offered by Amazon.com. These services operate from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services arguably include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon S3. Amazon markets these products as a service to provide large computing-capacity more quickly and more cheaply than a client company building an actual physical server farm.
Box is an online file sharing and personal cloud content management service for businesses. The company adopted a freemium business model, and provides up to 10 GB of free storage for personal accounts. Box is a cloud computing business which provides file-sharing, collaborating, and other tools for working with files that are uploaded to its servers. Users can determine how their content can be shared with other users.
Sample Customers
Amazon AWS
Pinterest, General Electric, Pfizer, Netflix, and Nasdaq.
Amazon Lightsail
Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Amazon FSx
Neiman Marcus, T Mobile, Docxellent, Matrix, Lyell
Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)
Bazaar Voice, Crowd Strike, Adobe, Gamevil, Hess, CopperEgg, TotalJobs Group, SuperCell, Dropcam, Unilever
Amazon EFS (Elastic File System)
Arcesium, Atlassian, Seeking Alpha, Zend
AWS Step Functions
Alpha Apps, The Guardian, SGK, Bigfinite
Amazon WorkDocs
Delhivery
Box
GE, Toyota, P&G, Caterpillar, Flex, Schneider Electric, Sally Beauty, Eurostar, AstraZeneca, AirBnB, Whirlpool, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Nationwide, Aeropostale etc
Popular Solutions
Top Industries
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Educational Organization
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Educational Organization
33%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
5%
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Customer Service
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