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Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost.

Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.

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Justin DeMatteo

11 Reviews

Cloud VM's (Public Cloud)

01/04/16

Great one stop shop for any of your hosting needs. We use for cloud VM's and have been for about a year now. Haven't had the first issue with them. Great customer service and speedy response to questions.

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Dataless

10 Reviews

Cloud VM's (Public Cloud)

12/22/15

While I have been running a Virtual Environment for many years it wasn't until this year that I started trying out many of the public cloud options.

I gave AWS a shot and I have to say they have a lot of features and additional services.

Having all of these services integrated can certainly make AWS a one-stop-shop for moving your infrastructure online.

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Doug Hubbard

5 Reviews

Cloud VM's (Public Cloud)

12/14/15

Very simple to set up and work with. Lots of images to start from (and tools to migrate in house images to their format).
Makes it easy to get a system up and running in a hurry and the pricing is amazing compared to running something in house.
For anything from a quick one off instance to a data center in the cloud AWS can handle it for you.
Things can be as complex or as simple as you want and with their API you can automate almost anything.
A very solid choice if you need cloud services
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Brad Hiemstra

1 Reviews

Cloud VM's (Public Cloud)

11/06/15

After years of a 'fingers crossed and eyes closed' update procedures, and a couple moments in the fire. We decided to take the higher route and move our testing to the cloud. After the initial investment in time of setting up a similar environment on AWS, we update all of the VM's to our current production versions and began testing. Once we had everything working as close to production as we could we were set to start breaking things (patching). This time with out the fear of losing production time, or our fingernails.

We have been using AWS for a little over 6 months now, and it has saved our tails a couple times already. We chose to use the hourly charge service and we end up spending less than .90 cents an hour when we are testing. Management was easily convinced to spend the extra cost a month to ensure we are up as much as possible in production. They have been very happy, which means we are happy.

We have also started to use the service for training our new techs. We setup a small environment of a couple servers and hosts. Then we break a couple things like dhcp, dns, and maybe some gpo's set to mess with them. I give them a small explanation of what isn't working and tell them dive in. Even if they don't resolve the issues, they are getting familiar with the OS's and we don't have to babysit them like we would on a production machine. If they break it, no big deal.

Overall we have been very happy with our decision to move our testing to the cloud. We are now looking at possibly moving a couple of our non-critical VM's up there permanently, and switching to a set monthly charge.

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