About Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services is the cloud computing arm of Amazon, offering on-demand compute, object and file storage, databases, analytics and machine learning services. Its data portfolio includes S3, Redshift, Aurora, DynamoDB, Kinesis and Glue. It serves organizations of every size across industries and regions.

Common use cases

  • Data lake and analytics
  • Cloud migration
  • Application hosting
  • Model training and inference
  • Backup and disaster recovery

Social listening

What people are saying about Amazon Web Services

Feedback on Redshift highlights scale, parallel query speed and AWS integration, and buyers typically plan for pricing, resizing and permissions setup.

What stands out

  • Scales to very large data volumes with fast parallel queries.
  • Tight integration with the wider AWS ecosystem.
  • As a managed service it reduces maintenance effort.

Things to consider

  • Worth modeling pricing, including premium support, as usage grows.
  • Plan ahead for cluster resizing and storage additions.
  • Plan for setup and permission management time at the start.
  • Worth confirming support tiers and response times during evaluation.
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Themes summarized from public reviews, community discussion and press coverage as of November 2026. They reflect public discussion, not a rating or an endorsement by AI Connect.

Products and services

Amazon S3

Object storage service.

Amazon EC2

Virtual compute instances including GPU options.

Amazon Redshift

Managed cloud data warehouse.

Amazon Aurora and DynamoDB

Managed relational and NoSQL databases.

AWS Glue and Kinesis

Managed data integration and streaming services.

Key features

  • Elastic compute capacity
  • Object and file storage
  • Managed databases
  • Data lake services
  • Streaming ingestion
  • Global regions

Integrations

  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • Kafka
  • Tableau
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Datadog

Amazon Web Services alternatives

FAQs

How is AWS priced?

Mostly usage-based, with discounts for commitments, reserved capacity and savings plans.

Can it support hybrid setups?

Yes, through services such as Outposts, Direct Connect and hybrid storage gateways.

Which data services are central?

S3 for storage, Redshift for warehousing, plus managed databases, Glue and Kinesis.

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