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

The hybrid cloud storage market comprises diverse deployment patterns with underlying technologies that address a wide range of data types. Products in this market must facilitate seamless data services across different environments, including disparate data centers, colocations, edge locations and public cloud infrastructure. Hybrid cloud data solutions are offered through various means such as distributed hybrid infrastructure (DHI), hybrid cloud storage platforms, data transfer appliances, hyperconverged solutions, storage arrays, software-defined storage (SDS) products and comprehensive data management software.

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AWS Storage Gateway

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Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Amazon Elastic VMware Service

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SENIOR IT SYSADMIN

Overall, the experience with AWS outpost has been solid and aligns well with expectations for a hybrid cloud solution. The tight integration with AWS services provides a consistent operational model between on prem and cloud environments which simplifies deployment, management and compliance. However, its more expensive and has some limitations compared to other fully cloud native AWS Services.

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Assistant Manager

We are using Storage Gateway in our organization for file-sharing purposes. Through this, any changes made by one user are visible to other users, and multiple users are able to connect to and use the same file simultaneously.

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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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Favorable Review

Integration with Active Directory Simplifies Permission Controls on Storage Gateway

Critical Review

Strong hybrid AWS integration with clear cost and scalability trade-offs

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