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Updated 13th October 2025
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Software Developer
<50M USD, IT ServicesFAVORABLE
“A reliable and scalable cloud platform with strong capabilities, but it requires good planning and cost control”
Our overall experience with Amazon Web Services has been very positive. We use AWS to support our web application, and it has given us a reliable, scalable, and flexible cloud environment. What has worked well is the breadth of services, the ease of scaling as our needs grow, and the strong ecosystem around deployment, monitoring, storage, and security. It helps our development teams move faster and build with confidence, What has not worked as well is that the platform can feel complex at times, pricing can become difficult to track across multiple services, and some services require a learning curve before teams can use them efficiently. Even with those challenges, AWS has been a strong platform for our business and technical needs.
DATA ANALYST
250M - 500M USD, SoftwareCRITICAL
“AWS Interface Perceived as Outdated Despite Stable and Secure Core Services”
My overall experience with AWS is mixed. Based on my prior experience with other cloud platforms, I find AWS lacking many features and having an outdated user interface.
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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.
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Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
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Project Management Manager
In the process of migrating Legacy Applications to an AWS cloud instance. Our Legacy system contains sensitive private data of users. AWS engineers are saying they need access to our data early and they have not built out the environment yet. I found online that access to the data is needed once in the TEST and VALIDATION phase of the project. Does the AWS cloud engineer need access to my real data to figure out how to install databases and applications even if they haven't built out the future environment yet?IT Manager
See Full DiscussionGenerally, AWS engineers do not need access to real data to figure out how to install databases and applications. you can setup a process to ensure strong security measures are followed.
Few Recommendations:
1. Use sample or dummy data to set up and test the environment. This allows AWS engineers to configure and troubleshoot without needing access to sensitive information.
2. If real data must be used early in the process, consider data masking techniques to anonymize sensitive information.
3. Discuss your concerns with the AWS engineers and establish clear protocols for data access and security.
Data and Analytics Manager
Currently, in my organization, we have BI products built on top of a data warehouse implemented using PostgreSQL, following a snowflake schema architecture (fact and dimension tables). This structure has become extremely complex and hard to maintain. Updates are very costly, and I’m heavily dependent on a single person to keep it running. I’m considering moving to a cloud-based environment, such as AWS Redshift or Google BigQuery. Based on your experience, would migrating to one of these platforms help me move away from this complex snowflake architecture? Also, between the two solutions (AWS Redshift and Google BigQuery), which one would you recommend and why?Principal Software Engineer, Data Engineering
See Full DiscussionIt is better to analyze from the problem perspective. Whether you need a Snowflake schema, star schema, or one big table, it needs to be analyzed based on the user requirements, data volume, query patterns, business asks, latency requirements, etc. Changing the database/platforms might not solve the issue if you need a sustainable solution.
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- Software Developer<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
A reliable and scalable cloud platform with strong capabilities, but it requires good planning and cost control
Our overall experience with Amazon Web Services has been very positive. We use AWS to support our web application, and it has given us a reliable, scalable, and flexible cloud environment. What has worked well is the breadth of services, the ease of scaling as our needs grow, and the strong ecosystem around deployment, monitoring, storage, and security. It helps our development teams move faster and build with confidence, What has not worked as well is that the platform can feel complex at times, pricing can become difficult to track across multiple services, and some services require a learning curve before teams can use them efficiently. Even with those challenges, AWS has been a strong platform for our business and technical needs. - Data Analyst50M-1B USDServices (non-Government)Review Source
Scalability, Reliability, and Service Variety Stand Out in AWS Experience
Overall my experience with AWS has been positive, the platform is highly reliable, scalable and offers a wide range of services that make it easy to build and manage solutions efficiently, what has worked well is the flexibility, strong performance and the ability to quickly deploy and scale resources as needed, the interface and documentation are also helpful in navigating the services, overall AWS has been a dependable and valuable platform for my needs. - Engineer50M-1B USDSoftwareReview Source
Scaling and Automation Are Smooth With AWS, While Pricing Remains Hard to Predict
Honestly, my overall experience with AWS has been pretty great. It gives you a huge range of services and is super reliable when it comes to building and scaling apps, the performance and availability are solid - especially when you're running long processes that just need to keep going without any hiccups. That said, when you're just starting out, it can feel a little overwhelming. There's just so much to take in. And pricing? If you’re not keeping a close eye on it, things can get confusing real fast. But once you get the hang of it, it's honestly hard to imagine going back! - Data Analyst1B-10B USDFinance (non-banking)Review Source
Powerful and scalable platform, but pricing complexity adds challenges
My overall experience with AWS has been very positive. It offers a highly reliable and scalable cloud platform that has supported our workloads effectively as we've grown. The flexibility of services and global infrastructure are major advantages. The identity management tool and Metered Billing are a few exceptional tools offered by the platform which makes it a platform we can trust as a customer. It's a powerful platform, but it works best when you invest time in understanding the ecosystem. - Operations Manager<50M USDServices (non-Government)Review Source
Powerful cloud infrastructure, but watch your billing
My overall experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been incredibly reliable. We use it heavily to power our backend infrastructure and host our applications. It provides basically every cloud service we could possibly need, and the scalability means we never have to worry about performance, even during high traffic periods. It's the industry standard for a reason
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