AWS
Our verdict
Who it's for
Engineering teams that want the broadest cloud service catalog and global reach.
Who should look elsewhere
Small teams wanting predictable, simple pricing without cloud expertise.
Pros
- +Widest breadth of compute, storage and managed services
- +Deep compliance coverage (SOC, ISO, HIPAA, FedRAMP, PCI)
- +Free tier to start plus a mature API
Cons
- −Usage-based pricing is hard to predict
- −Steep learning curve and operational overhead
- −Cost management needs active governance
Key features
- ✓EC2 (compute)
- ✓S3 (storage)
- ✓Lambda (serverless)
- ✓RDS (databases)
- ✓EKS (Kubernetes)
- ✓CloudFront (CDN)
- ✓SQS (queues)
- ✓200+ more services
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Tier | $0 | month | — |
| Pay-as-you-go | Usage-based | month | — |
| Savings Plans | $72 | year | — |
Capabilities
- Sso Saml
- —
- Rbac
- —
- Mobile App
- —
- Webhooks
- —
- Data Export
- —
- Compute Services
- Yes
- Cdn
- Yes
- Global Regions
- —
- Serverless
- Yes
- Consumption Pricing
- Yes