# AWS Ground Station Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Other IT Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-it-management) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 16 ## About AWS Ground Station AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, downlink and process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations quickly, easily and cost-effectively without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure. ## AWS Ground Station Reviews ### 1. AWS is uniquely best option. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Devadarsan K. | Sr.Associate - Customer Experience, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** AWS is built of strong base as of my experience in several aspects throughout my work journey yet. It has prominently become a must have pavilion for any kinda virtual business to be processed by providing such a uniquely convenient and trusted service provider. AWS Ground station is the core! For several major process of running a smooth business in the backend for a process everything done virtually can only depend on AWS Ground Station. For communications, processing data & to scale the operations without having a thought to worry about building or managing our own ground station infrastructure. **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** There were some few breakdowns and taken more than a day for AWS to back online. But it was happened a long ago and not expecting anything to happen again because of the strong system made up for AWS in years yet. **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** There will be unfortunate scenarios will be facing while we work externally without having a secure backup like AWS cGround Station facility, then it's highly risky and being unfortunate. But through the strong abilities of AWS in several process everything done virtually can only depend on AWS Ground Station. For communications, processing data & to scale the operations without having a thought to worry about building or managing our own ground station infrastructure. ### 2. AWS Ground Station Review for All **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sneha D. | Design Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** An excellent solution for computing and storage - I use it to download data ingestion for my essential projects. The product is speedy and easy to use with clean navigation. We are leveraging the product in our real-time data ingestion engines without any latency. The product also allows us to leverage a variety of use cases across video, weather, satellite, forecasts. **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** You will need IT support for setting up the product; the cost is a little high compared to the other competitors in the market. Also, the product needs some advanced understanding and learning- it will not be beneficial for amateurs/ beginners. Otherwise, there is no such drawback/ weakness that I could realize in the product. You might want to test for compatibility with your systems and the speed **Recommendations to others considering AWS Ground Station:** Review for latency and data ingestion into your systems before you make a decision. Have your IT teams weigh in and keep them involved for troubleshooting, reviews and integrations with outside systems. Also, analyse the usefulness of the data although it is very rich. **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using this product to get real-time data from satellites for our key projects and analyze that data with fast computing speed, along with deciding on data delivery. You can also use the product along with Amazon Sage and Amazon S3 for data delivery and analysis. The product keeps our projects updated with ground-level data in real-time. The product is beneficial for engineers in all aspects. ### 3. AWS Ground Station **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Satykam A. | Red Team Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** Best part of aws ground station is very easy and you can get the data very fast. Helped us in one of our research project. **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** There is nothing to dislike about this service, we would recommend this to everyone for the science projects. **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are utilizing aws ground station for one of our research project. ### 4. AWS ground station **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew H. | Owner operator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** Very helpful app that's unique and customizable. Easy to use and I can't really find any flaws, I definitely recommend this app above any other in its class!! **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** I can't find anything wrong with this app, it's complete through and through! **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** This helps me in every part of my business and I'm very grateful ### 5. Best access to Satellite Communications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Keena W. | Loan Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** I love how easy it is to manage and scale our personal satellite ground station **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** Nothing so far, it's a great asset to the satellite inindustry **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost reduction and real time data ### 6. great for students! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jannatin N. | Store Cashier, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** SO BASICALLY this is a cloud web service and I use this primarily for my computer science course so I take this service to help we with computing and storage needs. I really love this because it works with my professor so we get our work done and then take that to submit to the professor of our task completed using the services. I getto download lot of data that helps with integrating equipment for the projects we conduct. **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** this can be a a confusing service for people and I would not recommend this to beginners, but rather people who work in the field that would most likely use this type of system to with with global networks and data. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Ground Station:** I recommend to use this for your engineering courses and most likely your professors will implement these to you! so i would suggest trying this service for a better understanding of global ground station networks that are integrated with the AWS feature! It takes reading and practice to understand these better! **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working with this helps with understanding ground stations and creates like a graphical console that helps us work with the antennas we are computing and testing! I would say this helps with a great learning experience for engineers, electrical engineers, and other computer engineers! ### 7. AWS Ground Station Moves Video **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher W. | It Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** We never thought we would ever have the money to utilize satellite technologies but fractionalizing it was a game changer **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** We didn't have the exsperience to do it on our own. So employing the right people took time, professional services and money. **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** Immediate data feedback on whether the data arrived intact or resend the packets. Previously, sending images and video by ISDN was slow and the mainenance was expensive. We can push data from the studio to a ground uplink and not worry about equipment and time. ### 8. Know more about AWS ground station! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krishnakant B. | kmb, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** The best part of using AWS Ground Station is the smooth supply of data without any interruption. **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** It is quite expensive, the rates charged by amazon are slightly higher than its other competitors. **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** The data supply is smooth also there is no or minimal latency. ### 9. Amazing service that lets you scale your operations easily **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** You will have great and direct access to AWS Services and will be able to manage all data ingestion. Has a wide variety of features to use from video communications to weather forecasting. **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** There is nothing I dislike from AWS Ground Station. You can even use Amazon S3 and Amazon Sage maker to your data sets. I recommend it! **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to download data and to rapidly scale all satellite communications. You can even save the costs of your ground station operations. Is very easy to integrate and cost effective. ### 10. Delivering Info From Earth to Space **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gabriel R. | ITO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** Reliability, availability and performance. You can choose how to program your contacts, how the antennas communicate with your satellites, and where your data is delivered. **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** It's costly. Pricing is per minute of downlink time. **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deliver data to other regions. Although it is expensive, the service is highly valued due to the speed provided. ### 11. The GAME CHANGER ! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** AWS offers a gamut of solutions and products that are trusted by everyday Joes and well-known brands, it has functionality for everyone! **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** For the well-known companies the cost might not matter, but once again for the everyday guy using the tech, the cost might be somewhat high to use. **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** Amazon CloudFront to deliever my content ### 12. Best service around **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos J C. | Corporate Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** Very fast was to process your companies data **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** the cost may not be the cheapest in the market but is worth **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** storing data for my company, process satellite information and recovering from our data base ### 13. Work From Home with AWS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tiana M. M. | Lead Customer Service and Collections, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2020 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** Very easy to use. Once logged in you have you work desktop right there it looks normal. **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** Setting it up did require help from IT. The instructions I were given were not very clear but IT walked me through it with ease. **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems. Biggest benefit is i can work from home. ### 14. Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2020 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** Easy to use, clear navigation. I don’t feel like I’m all over the place. **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** At this time I have not found issues to give a poor rating. **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a new business, the marketing and accounting features are most helpful. ### 15. Pathbreaking from Amazon **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** They have antenna systems are located in close proximity to AWS Regions and let you leverage AWS Cloud capabilities with minimal latency which is awesome **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** It is only available in couple of regions **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are planning to do a POC since it has been launched recently. ### 16. Best for satellite communication **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Ground Station?** It provide services related to satellite communication, video broadcast which is easy to operate and is cost effective. **What do you dislike about AWS Ground Station?** Need to download all data at once then you can process it. **What problems is AWS Ground Station solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes easy to communicate from one part of the globe to another. ## AWS Ground Station Discussions - [What is thid best way to.....?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/34331-what-is-thid-best-way-to) - 3 comments, 1 upvote - [View AWS Ground Station pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-ground-station/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-17+04%3A18%3A22+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=102f06cf-a5d6-45e3-b16f-97fd05cc3a9b&secure%5Btoken%5D=00ba620677f633f1f497a49c8ade8d1c98b661e20e15ff07c57c7fd49f5a8947&format=llm_user) ## Top AWS Ground Station Alternatives - [IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloud-pak-for-aiops/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (57 reviews) - [iBwave Design](https://www.g2.com/products/ibwave-design/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (18 reviews) - [Google Cloud Shell](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-shell/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (27 reviews)