Amazon AWS Reviews

1. macloughlin

   · AV engineer · almost 3 years ago
   The best cloud platform out there

   You could say a lot of things about AWS, but among the cloud platforms (and I've used quite a few) AWS takes the cake. It is logically structured, you can get through its documentation relatively easily, you have a great variety of tools and services to choose from [from AWS itself and from third-party developers in their marketplace]. There is a learning curve, there is quite a lot of it, but it is still way easier than some other platforms. I've used and abused AWS and EC2 specifically and for me it is the best.

   👍 Pros:    Great documentation|Website structure visualization|You have control over everything|Flexibility

   👎 Cons:    Learning curve|A lot of dashboards for different things

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• How to Use Pre-Signed S3 URLs for Direct Browser-to-Storage Uploads

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• 7 Free Tools for Managing Secrets and Environment Variables in Web Projects

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