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Amazon AWS


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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.

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#Hosting #Web Services #scalability
Pros and Cons Pros
+  Over 165 services including EC2 computing, S3 storage, SES emails, RDS database, and more
+  Global reach with data centers in 22 geographic regions
+  Scale services up or down in minutes
+  Manage all services and resources together
+  Strong security compliance
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 learn
Who'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?

anonymous

We paid for ProductHunt Ship and got $5,000 AWS credit (available for 1 year). Our current usage of AWS per month is $220.

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Questions and Answers

Question
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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Use AWS Activate for the most discount
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Question
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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I am not a lawyer
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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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AWS EDP requires significant scale
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