Amazon Web Services (AWS) Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

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Overall its been a positive especially for building event driven applications and backend services and the automatic scaling and serverless approach reduced infrastructure management although debugging and cold starts occasionally require extra attention

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The overall experience has been satisfying as we mainly use it for auditing purposes. 

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Al tener gran parte de las cargas de trabajo de la compañía en AWS, la implementación del servicio AWS Lambda es de mucha utilidad principalmente para nuestro equipo de desarrollo de aplicaciones y de infraestructura TI, ya que les ha permitido implementar aplicaciones de manera más ágil así como también reducir la administración de servidores, todo esto por las bondades que brinda su modelo de servicios serverless.

With a large portion of the company's workloads running on AWS, the implementation of the AWS Lambda service is particularly useful for our application development and IT infrastructure teams, as it has allowed them to deploy applications more quickly and reduce server administration, all thanks to the advantages offered by its serverless service model.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.

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Automatic scaling and very simple integration, but management becomes complex when dealing with a very high volume of Lambda functions.

Critical Review

Auditing tasks simplified with inherited AWS compliance certifications

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