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)."It is enough for us in terms of features. We don't have too many transactions, and it is sufficient for our current needs."
"It is easy to spin up resources."
"The solution can scale well."
"The tool is a hosting platform that we can leverage to open servers. We can use it to build databases. We use cost management and high-performance capabilities of the tool."
"It's very easy to use."
"The whole solution is well designed and AWS has decent documentation, which is not to be taken for granted. I've also found that AWS is easy to use."
"It is quite easy to provision new virtual services for our use. The procedures are quite straightforward and simple as compared to other competitors, such as Microsoft or Huawei. This is what we are happy about with Amazon AWS. It is pretty mature in terms of the availability of most of the infrastructure components. If you want to deploy a server on your platform, everything is already there in terms of the operating system, network components, securities, and data encryption. It is also quite scalable and stable."
"We have seen an improvement in our infrastructure, as the code makes it very easy to deploy quickly to AWS."
"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."
"One of the problems that I have seen is that some of the products are not as mature as others."
"The feedback we are getting from our customers, especially here in Turkey where the exchange rate fluctuates regularly, is that the solution is quite expensive."
"The interface needs a bit of work. It's not intuitive."
"The price needs improvement."
"User personalization and robotic process automation services need to be mature enough. More APIs are required for robotic process automation services. Azure is more mature in terms of user personalization and robotic process automation services. The document processing can also be better. Whenever we want to do any kind of document management, I try to do OCR, ICR, etc. The functionality in AWS has to be more like that."
"The pricing could be more competitive."
"Instead of using some third-party solutions, Amazon should include them as part of its offering."
"There are numerous use cases, and the setup varies from complicated to very simple in some cases."
"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, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Virtustream xStream is most compared with Microsoft Azure.
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