We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Virtustream xStream based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."Cloud Management has been a valuable feature."
"I like the technical support."
"I like the auto-scaling functionality and compliance requirements, whichever they are requesting."
"The initial setup is easy. The deployment is fast."
"It streamlines tasks like table creation and data loading into Redshift, making the process more efficient and manageable."
"It has helped reduce the cost by rationing the computing power and paying only on a per usage basis, instead of provisioning unneeded, idle, or unutilized computing power that is used only at 20% of its capacity or time."
"The installation process is very simple."
"Technical support has been great."
"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."
"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"One problem is that the AWS public cloud doesn't have shared storage capabilities. The second thing is the cloud performance versus on-prem."
"Price is an area with a shortcoming in the solution that has a scope for improvement"
"Some features may be better in Azure or some other portal. AWS could add some of those features."
"I would appreciate more direct support from AWS."
"AWS could be more scalable."
"I also use Google Cloud GCP and AWS cannot directly use the Azure EC2 consult. They could add that feature. Direct connection to the EC2 console server would be very useful."
"I would like to receive some alerts when my consumption is getting out of the normal range."
"Our account representative was inexperienced, they could improve on how they are managing accounts."
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Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Virtustream xStream is ranked 20th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS). Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Virtustream xStream is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Virtustream xStream writes "Improves efficiencies, has encryption, and great mission-critical customer support". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Virtustream xStream is most compared with Microsoft Azure.
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