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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud computing platform offering on-demand IT resources and services.
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Pricing
Paid
Learning curve
Steep
Time to value
Days
BEST FORSmall TeamGrowing Business
WORKS FOR

Hosting and scaling cloud infrastructure as an alternative to internal IT teams, Managing permissions and user access with a simplified interface, Building internal tooling and migrating on-prem workloads to the cloud

KEY INSIGHT

It's the safe, enterprise-standard choice for reliability and scale, but you pay a premium and need expertise to manage costs.

DOESN'T WORK FOR

Cost-sensitive situations where cheaper alternatives like colocation or providers like Hetzner exist, When the business lacks dedicated staff to manage the platform

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Community Reviews

Reviews from Reddit, Product Hunt, Hacker News & AlignAI members

WORKED

I’ve worked on AWS-based internal tooling.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: building internal tooling and infrastructure

FAILED

Overall we reduced our cloud spend (even accounting for the additional staff) by about 40% after moving away from AWS and GCP.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Hosting VMs and cloud services (implicitly compared for cost)

FAILED

We Moved from AWS to Hetzner. Cut Costs 89%.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: General cloud infrastructure (implied by cost comparison)

WORKED

The nightmare it would ve been if snapshot of the production database wouldn t have been found even within the AWS business support.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Hosting production infrastructure and database snapshots

WORKED

As someone who recently did a short term contract to capture manually created AWS infrastructure into CDK, I can tell you this was one of my first moves!

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Hosting manually created infrastructure

MIXED

I've never had to rely on AWS (or another provider) to recover the data for me.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Data recovery for production systems

MIXED

AWS is the IBM of clouds. You won't get fired for choosing it, but you also know you're just getting a plain vanilla set of services, too, that usually cost more than colo or on-prem.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: General cloud infrastructure

WORKED

AWS ... made things easier than dealing with these teams internally.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Cloud infrastructure and scaling, as an alternative to internal teams

MIXED

Technologies: Zig, C, Terraform, Docker, Linux, Go, Python, Laravel, Node, React, TypeScript, Flutter iOS, Godot, PostgreSQL, AWS

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Part of technology stack for infrastructure and development

MIXED

The company did need the same exact people to manage AWS anyway. And the cost difference was so high that it was possible to hire 5 more people which wasn't needed anyway.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: General cloud infrastructure (implied management and compute)

WORKED

Designed and built Platform-as-a-Service for microservice workloads running on Azure and AWS to migrate on-prem workloads to the cloud.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Building a global PaaS for microservice workloads alongside Azure.

WORKED

all on AWS. You'd be joining a tight team where developers own problems end-to-end... and work that visibly matters to the people using it.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Cloud infrastructure platform

WORKED

Compare that to AWS, where you just click a user, and you see what's assigned to it. They engineered it specifically so it wouldn't be a pain in the ass.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Cloud infrastructure and permissions management

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