Cloud Computing
Amazon AWS
Honest Reviews, Comparisons, and Pricing
Overview
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud computing platform with over 165 services to power sites and apps and scale up resources without upfront investment.
Pros and Cons Pros
Cons
- Customer support pricing based on percentage of monthly AWS usage price - Costs can be significant for larger deployments - Billing can be confusing with separate pricing for every service and resource - Wide variety of APIs and service-specific settings to learnWho's using Amazon AWS?
“Using AWS, we can look at user metrics weekly or daily and react with new capacity in 30 seconds.”
Richard Crowley, Director of Operations, Slack
How much are you paying for Amazon AWS?
We paid for ProductHunt Ship and got $5,000 AWS credit (available for 1 year). Our current usage of AWS per month is $220.
Questions and Answers
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Which AWS discount did your startup use?Amazon says you can only use one AWS discount on your account, ever, so trying to find the best one before we sign up for our startup.
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Which PaaS is good for HIPAA compliance? What's the cost?Looked at Heroku, which uses a Shared Responsibility model for HIPAA compliance. The quoted price struck my as ridiculous (OTOO ~$50K/year) in addition to server/worker resource costs. For HIPAA-compliant apps using PaaS or public cloud, what'd you pick, why, and what'd it cost?
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What discounts does AWS get you?Our company has fast growing spend on AWS and are almost done with our AWS Activate credits. We've heard that they have an Enterprise Discount Program (EDP). How much can you save? How do you get in on it? And, are there any other discount programs to be aware of on AWS?
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