Cloud Computing
Amazon AWS
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
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Over 165 services including EC2 computing, S3 storage, SES emails, RDS database, and more
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Global reach with data centers in 22 geographic regions
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Scale services up or down in minutes
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Manage all services and resources together
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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 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?
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.
Questions and Answers
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How does SendGrid compare to Amazon SES?If you've used both, which do you find more reliable at delivery?
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How do Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud compare to AWS today?Are any of Microsoft or Amazon's services better than their AWS equivalents?
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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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