This assessment synthesizes insights from 9 recent reviews to provide a comprehensive overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS is primarily used for cloud infrastructure hosting, with 5 out of 9 reviewers specifically mentioning this use case. The platform offers a broad range of services, from basic storage and compute to more complex container orchestration and DNS management capabilities, as noted by 4 reviewers. AWS is praised for its reliability and scalability, with 4 reviewers highlighting these aspects. Ease of use, particularly regarding IAM and the user interface, is also a frequently cited advantage, mentioned by 3 reviewers. However, users express concerns regarding pricing complexity and cost, especially for smaller enterprises, as indicated by 3 reviewers. Additionally, 3 reviewers find the user experience challenging, especially for beginners. While AWS can lead to cost reductions and improved efficiency, with 3 reviewers each citing these benefits, potential cost overruns require careful management, as pointed out by 2 reviewers.

Pros

High reliability and scalability, enabling effective handling of peak loads.
User-friendly interface and intuitive IAM for access management.
Broad range of services covering diverse needs like storage, compute, and container orchestration.
Potential for cost reduction through services like RDS and S3, provided resources are managed carefully.
Improved efficiency and productivity gains reported by users who have successfully migrated to and managed resources on AWS.

Cons

Complex pricing structure leading to potential cost overruns, particularly for smaller enterprises.
Steep learning curve and challenging user experience, especially for beginners.
Inconsistencies in documentation and web console UI.
Potential for cost overruns if cloud resources are not carefully monitored and managed.

What positive or negative impact (i.e. Return on Investment or ROI) has Amazon Web Services had on your overall business objectives?

From 9 reviews

Summary

This report synthesizes 9 recent reviews regarding the return on investment (ROI) of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Reviewers most frequently cited cost reductions and improved efficiency as positive impacts on their business objectives. Specifically, 3 of 9 reviewers mentioned cost reduction by using services such as RDS and S3, while another 3 noted improvements to efficiency and productivity. However, 2 of 9 reviewers raised concerns about potential cost overruns if cloud resources are not carefully managed. The reviews suggest that while AWS can offer significant benefits, diligent oversight is needed to maximize ROI and avoid unexpected expenses.

Top Quotes

Cost Reduction

“Using services like RDS has reduced the cost of database infrastructure, saving the IT budget.”

Improved Efficiency

“Improved productivity”

Cost Concerns

“Backup snapshots of EBS volumes and RDS instances may increase the cost of cloud if not cleaned up properly.”

Describe how you use Amazon Web Services in your organization. What are the business problems the product addresses and what is the scope of your use case?

From 9 reviews

Summary

This report synthesizes 9 recent reviews to understand how organizations use Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the business problems it addresses. A significant portion of reviewers (5 of 9) mention using AWS for hosting infrastructure in the cloud. Reviewers also highlight the breadth of AWS services they utilize (4 of 9), including storage, compute, container orchestration, and DNS management. The reviews suggest that AWS offers a range of services that cater to various organizational needs, from basic infrastructure hosting to more complex deployments and management.

Top Quotes

AWS for Infrastructure

“Amazon Web Services are basically used to host infrastructure in cloud.”

AWS Services Used

“We are using various services of Amazon Web Services for storage, compute, container orchestration and a lot more. We are using S3 for storage of various documents and files. EC2 and Lambda for deploying some services and APIs. ECS for deploying containers based applications. We are also using Amazon Web Services Route 53 for DNS management. Apart from this, we use cognito, API gateway, Glue, secret manager and a lot more.”

Please provide some detailed examples of areas where Amazon Web Services has room for improvement.

From 9 reviews

Summary

This report analyzes 9 recent reviews to identify areas where Amazon Web Services (AWS) users see room for improvement. A significant portion of reviewers express concerns regarding pricing and cost (3 of 9) noting that the pricing structure can be complex and costly, especially for smaller enterprises. User experience is also a recurring theme, with 3 of 9 reviewers indicating that AWS can be difficult for beginners and not always user-friendly. Furthermore, 2 of 9 reviewers highlight issues with documentation and the web console UI, suggesting inconsistencies and a need for better documentation around specific technologies.

Top Quotes

Pricing and Cost

“Pricing structure can be complex”

User Experience

“It can be difficult to learn for beginners”

Documentation and UI

“Web console UI is sometimes inconsistent”

Please provide some detailed examples of things that Amazon Web Services does particularly well.

From 9 reviews

Summary

This report synthesizes 9 recent product reviews to identify areas where Amazon Web Services (AWS) receives positive feedback. Reviewers frequently highlight the platform's reliability and scalability, with 4 reviewers mentioning these aspects. For example, one reviewer notes AWS's scalability helps them handle peak loads effectively. Another common theme is ease of use, cited by 3 reviewers, particularly regarding IAM for access management and the user-friendly interface. These factors contribute to a perception of AWS as a dependable and accessible cloud platform, though the small sample size warrants caution in generalizing these findings.

Related topics

Reliability and Scalability Ease of Use

Top Quotes

Reliability and Scalability

“Reliability”

Ease of Use

“IAM makes access management very easy.”

Reviews

90 Reviews

Amazon Web Services for medium to large scale implementations

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 25, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Web Services is one of our CSP vendors for Cloud Application hosting

Pros

Easy to spin up new subscriptions
Reliability is good
Vast set of services to get started and manage ongoing

Cons

AI assisted security management
Agentic SW development, GitHub integration for SCM

Likelihood to Recommend

Good set of services for medium to large implementations. Good support model and easy to get started quickly. It still has some room for improvement in AI assisted coding and service management, including security.

Verified User

Program Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

AWS - still good

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 24, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use AWS as a primary cloud provider across a range of services. That includes managed compute fleet, networking, covers some of the load balancing and multi region disaster recover scenarios, as well as some higher level things like managed Kubernetes, some databases, logging, analytics and many other elements across AWS offerings

Pros

Reliability
Comprehensive offerings
Support that works

Cons

Web console UI is sometimes inconsistent
Some services have historical feature gaps that take time to get addressed
Things can always be cheaper

Likelihood to Recommend

This is something that is actually common across most cloud providers. A comprehensive understanding of one's use cases, constraints and future directions is key to determining if you even need a cloud solution. If you are a 2-person startup developing something with a best-scenario audience of 1k DAU in a year, you would very likely best served by a dirt-cheap dedicated Linux server somewhere (and your options to graduate to a cloud solution will still be open). If, however, you are a bigger fish, and/or you are actively considering build-vs-buy decisions for complicated, highly-loaded, six-figure requests per minute systems, global loadbalancing, extreme growth projections - then MAYBE you solve all or part of it with a cloud provider. And depending on your taste for risk, reliability, flexibility, track record - it might be AWS.

Michael Bravo

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Engineering at Wix (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

19 years of experience

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Looking for Cloud services go with the market leader AWS.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 23, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize AWS to fulfill our various organizational needs, which range from using AWS compute, SaaS, PaaS, DBaaS, and IAM. We have multiple applications and databases deployed on AWS compute for both production and test environments, with some managed by us and others managed autonomously. The deployed applications are being used in HR, Finance, and IT support departments.

Pros

During the month-end, we experience high resource utilization; however, with AWS's scalability, we can effectively tackle the peak load.
With AWS IAM, we don't need to set up complete infrastructure for identity and access management, as AWS provides end-to-end IAM services.
With AWS, development has become very easy as it's very quick to spin up and destroy the environment, which saves costs.

Cons

I think the pricing is currently very costly. For small-scale enterprises, it's a little expensive.
There is still lack of support for legacy applications migration.
Finding AWS experts are difficult. AWS should focus more on training the consultants.

Likelihood to Recommend

We are using RDS for the database services. With RDS, we don't have to manage much, as most of the DBA tasks are automated. For development purposes, we are using Kubernetes pods, which makes it easy to deploy applications and scale up as needed. AWS integration with in-house applications is seamless, making it easy to keep a data-sensitive application on-premises while still utilizing AWS services.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (10001 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Amazon Web Services for Retail Tech firm

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 23, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Amazon Web Services for updating and uploading our lists, uploading carousels and email lists. It helps us be up to date with all lists and make the best use of updated data.

Pros

Helps update lists
Helps upload lists timely

Cons

It can be more user-friendly
UI/UX can improve

Likelihood to Recommend

Best suited to update and upload data, make the best use of data captured.
Less appropriate for reporting purposes and gathering insights from data.

Verified User

Strategist in Marketing (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Amazon Web Services Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 19, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Amazon Web Services day to day depending on the different business use-cases. For instance for solving any event driven architecture problems we extensively use SQS, SNS & Lambdas. For dealing and handling large data we use S3, Glue Jobs, OpenSearch. For hosting our services we use ECS, to launch containerised services, exposed behind a VPN and API Gateway configuration. Logs across the services as captured in Amazon Web Services Cloudwatch.

Pros

Great UI Interface, that allows to quickly test things and check status.
Lots of support available for creating templates, to containerise your service architecture.
Good reliability on the availability of the services being used.

Cons

There can be better docs, around some technologies such as Event Bridge.
It can add more details around the costing of the services we are using and show us a view on the same page.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you want to quickly launch large scaled applications along with reliability, availability, scalability and business insights, Amazon Web Services is a great place to host your entire business.

For relatively low scale application Amazon Web Services might sometimes seem like an overkill, as it promotes a more micro-service architecture, which may or may not always make sense depending on individual business use-cases.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Amazon Web Services Usage

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 19, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Web Services are basically used to host infrastructure in cloud.
In our organization cloud is future solution , therefore all the applications has been asked to moved to cloud and design the applications according to services provided by them.
S3 buckets , RDS and Autoscaling various services are used extensively.
This is addressing the datacenter cost issue.

Pros

Auto Scaling feature
S3 Buckets
Elastic load balancer

Cons

Cost things need to be fixed
Availability of different zones in different regions
More robust features need to be added

Likelihood to Recommend

In hosting particular application where load increase and deceases with time period , then Amazon Web Services provides best features such Elastic load balancer and Auto scaling feature to deal with it.
Another very good feature is S3 buckets where we can store any type of object and that will be available globally through web and can be encrypted also.

Karan Jaitak

Infrastructure Engineer in Engineering at Credit Suisse (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Amazon Web Services

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 19, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Web Services offers a diverse range of services. It's an adaptable platform for a number of applications and business needs. Amazon Web Services is super scalable and flexible, is quite cost-effective, user-friendly, reliable, and secure.

Pros

Wide range of services
User-friendly dashboard/interface
Scalable and flexible

Cons

Pricing structure can be complex
It can be difficult to learn for beginners
Sometimes can be not user-friendly

Likelihood to Recommend

They offer strong support and resources if we ever need to troubleshoot or get assistance.

Michael Nemeyer

Senior Associate in Finance and Accounting at Rock Creek (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Amazon Web Services My Preferred Cloud Platform

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 17, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using various services of Amazon Web Services for storage, compute, container orchestration and a lot more. We are using S3 for storage of various documents and files. EC2 and Lambda for deploying some services and APIs. ECS for deploying containers based applications. We are also using Amazon Web Services Route 53 for DNS management. Apart from this, we use cognito, API gateway, Glue, secret manager and a lot more. Amazon Web Services makes it fast and easy to provision the infrastructure.

Pros

Security group changes takes effect in real time.
Storing blob files is very easy with S3.
IAM makes access management very easy.

Cons

When there is any misconfiguration of EC2 related to SSM Connect. It doesn't clearly states that what particular configuration is missing.
Debugging networking related issues could be improved.
From the security group page, it's difficult to determine which resource a security group is associated with.

Likelihood to Recommend

I find Amazon Web Services more easy to use as compared to some other public cloud offerings. e.g. storing data in S3 is very easy and access and also be maintained using easily using bucket policies. For container orchestration ECS is much user friendly and intuitive as compared to Kubernetes services.
It would have been better if Amazon Web Services could provide a logical container for multiple resources (e.g. resource groups in Azure), which would make it easy to clean up the resources.

Arvind Kumar

Senior Software Engineering Lead in Engineering at Optum (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

AWS in Action

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 11, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to run multiple applications and storing data on AWS's global network of data centers. We also use AWS for cloud services and infrastrcture. We also use it for mulitple SAAS applications, and Data Storage that holds multiple containers. These are the primary uses for AWS that we use.

Pros

Host our Web Applications
Infrastructure Services
Network Data Centers

Cons

Hybrid models of data storage
Data Analytics
Network Management

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS has a very wide range of different analytic services that are great for our business needs and requirements. The AWS infrastructure allows us to process and analyze extremely large data sets and we also use it for web hosting, email services, and content delivery networks.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Amazon Web Services - A Revolutionary cloud product!

Rating: 9 out of 10

January 23, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Amazon Web Services as a IAAS and SAAS. We have applications which are deployed on amazon elastic container services and some services are hosted on lambda. We also use API gateways for generating the authentication tokens through the terraform technology. Our company is highly customer centric so Amazon Web Services helps us in many use cases such as storing the data of user in multiformat option, Which helps in processing the data efficiently. We used dynamo DB for such business cases.

Pros

Provide services at minimal cost. Pay for what you use.
Efficient interface and Navigation through different windows.
Faster than many of the other competitors when it comes to EC2 instances.
Inclusion of multiple features makes it more reliable.

Cons

Auto scaling can adjust the number of instances automatically
Setting trigger based metrices for utilization purpose
Logging in Cloud watch can be more readable.
Amazon Web Services has latency issues that can be taken care as an improvement

Likelihood to Recommend

Storage, creation of virtual machines, Load balancing, API Gateway where Amazon Web Services does the fantastic job. Performance, Cost Optimization, Logging where Amazon Web Services can make an improvement. Amazon Web Services provides auto scaling be it a horizontal auto scaling or vertical which enhances overall load balancing of an application giving less CPU utilization. Also it provides almost all types of data storages and using it is also easy so those are plus points in Amazon Web Services. Amazon Web Services gives Latency issues in many region over all the world so if you want good latency then we have to find our some other alternatives.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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