--- title: AWS PrivateLink Reviews meta_title: 'AWS PrivateLink Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 24 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS PrivateLink works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 24 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-05-17' parent_category: name: Cloud Security url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-security --- # AWS PrivateLink Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Cloud Data Security Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-data-security) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 24 ## About AWS PrivateLink AWS PrivateLink increases the security of data shared with cloud-based applications by eliminating the exposure of data to the public Internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely on the Amazon network. ## AWS PrivateLink Reviews ### 1. Excellence AWS Service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2024 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** AWS PrivateLink seamlessly integrate with existing AWS services. AWS PrivateLink offers a rich set of features to meet various use cases and requirements. It is vastly adopted by the industries due to it's security, stability and ease to use. We can easily configure & implement it with other AWS microservices. This services is adopted by industries in high frequency. **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** Not all AWS services are currently supported by PrivateLink, which may limit its applicability for certain use cases. **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS PrivateLink solves the problem of securely connecting to AWS services without exposing them to the public network, enhancing data security and compliance. It benefits users by simplifying network setup, reducing the risk of unauthorized access, and ensuring smooth and efficient communication with AWS services. ### 2. It was very fast and simple to setup **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankur V. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2024 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** I like AWS PrivateLink for its enhanced security, simplified networking, isolation between services, consistent performance, scalability, and compliance capabilities. **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** AWS PrivateLink encounters potential cost considerations, notes service availability limitations, and experiences a learning curve when implementing the service. **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS PrivateLink addresses security concerns by allowing private network access to AWS services, isolates traffic, simplifies networking, and supports compliance requirements. ### 3. Reviewing AWS as an end user **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** nirmal p. | Senior Test Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2024 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** AWS privatelink does a better traffic control than any other services.For our application in my project we have integrated with a mailing services for customer regarding their payments and stuffs .And aws privatelink handles these email alert very well.There will be no time delay among the services to the recipient. **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** Since it's a unidirectional one way transit is only allowed .If it's a bidirectional it would have been even more beneficial. **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS privatelink handles the data transit from the app services to end user which is very much useful interms of data transfer. ### 4. its secure and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manghardeep S. | Graphic Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2024 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** AWS private links is the best service thet i used so far. its easy to use ans easy to implement. i used it friquintly in my daly routine. with AWS private links you can deliver SaaS services to other AWS customers while staying compliant with HIPAA, EU-US Privacy Shield, PCI, and other regulations. its costomer support is fast. **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** i dont think there is any dislike features of AWS private links i used it its great and easy to use. **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** acessing AWS services or third party services from my VPC and on-primises network ### 5. Quit good for private connection **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Monis Q. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2024 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** I would say in 2023 privacy is a big think which every ones priority which AWS PrivateLink do it provides secure connection between my resources without privacy leakage **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** Every think good but ofcourse price is a factor in every thing so if this would quit cheaper it would be good **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can say that it deals with AWS services without privacy leakage. For me privacy is quit big think that's why . ### 6. Reviewing as user **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gowsalya J. | Associate Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2024 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** Aws privatelink manages network traffic better than any other services. It was implemented for a service in my project which manages sending out text message to the customers after implementing this there was no glitch user had experienced **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** Very rarely it goes down.During that time users are getting impacted very much. **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS privatelink is keeping the data more secured which is really helpful in this world of lot of cyber threats and stuffs ### 7. Secure Way for data communication between VPCs and AWS services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arun V. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2024 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** We can avoid exposure to data over the internet **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** its cost and complex setup can be treated as a dislike, not easy to use and configure **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security is the problem that is solved by AWS PrivateLink, so there is no risk of exposure of data out of bound ### 8. AWS PrivateLink - Connectivity Bridge **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ujjwal A. | Devops Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2024 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** 1 - It is Easy to use. 2- Easy to implement with my VPC and On-premises network. 3- The customer support is also good. 4- It offers a number of features. **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** There is nothing as such which is causing problem, just pricing can be improved. **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps in private connectivity between VPC and on-premises network. ### 9. Enhances security using AWS PrivateLink in AWS Services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2024 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** It is very easy to use and implement. It increases security between AWS services. It can easily integrate with many AWS services. Easy to implement using VPC. It has various features like Isolated Network Traffic, Scalability, Improved Performance and others. **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** Limited Service Availability. Initially, it is a little complex to set up. **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since it transfers the data using VPC, it helps reduce the cost of data transfer. Also, the data is transferred through the private link so it is also secured. ### 10. Aws private link to secure the network of services **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MANISH KUMAR P. | Cloud Ops Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2024 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** Aws private link help to secure the infrastructure by applying private link instead of public access **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** Some one can not access the service from internet if only aws private link is enabled **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data getting secured by disable the public internet access on data ### 11. Network Easiness. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2024 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** Easy to use. Due to the pay-as-you-go model, it's cost-effective. Day-to-day connection with the on-premise network is easy. **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** I am not facing many issues with this service that force me to dislike it. **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping in connecting the VPC network with the on-premise network, without that much struggle and effort in day-to-day work. Support quality makes more easier with there support response. ### 12. AWS Private link feedback review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2024 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** Their server speeds and their services are really remarkable. **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** Sometimes price or the plan update for the form. **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows service among shared services VPC which used to be exposed as an end point service.It enable customer to access services hosted on AWS in highly available and scalable manner while keeping all the network traffic within AWS network. ### 13. Amazon VPC for Secure Connectivity **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** marc w. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** PrivateLink is definitely an AWS service that creates private VPC endpoints, allowing direct, secure connectivity between your AWS VPCs without traversing the general public Internet. Because Snowflake is implemented as a VPC, PrivateLink enables creating a highly-secure network between Snowflake and your other VPCs (in the exact same AWS region), fully protected from unauthorized external access. **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** After Snowflake enables PrivateLink for your account, that might take as much as 2 weeks, you need to complete the procedure by configuring your VPC environment as described in this topic. **Recommendations to others considering AWS PrivateLink:** When you request PrivateLink to be enabled, you must provide Snowflake with a list of all your AWS account IDs. **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Amazon VPC privatelink to secure the traffic in a scalable manner , simplify our network management and also to accelerate cloud migration . ### 14. Amazon VPC PrivateLink - Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marcin S. | Administrator IT, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** AmazonVPC allows you to connect between AWS servers without going over the public Internet, which ensures the security of our virtual infrastructures. **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** I did not find any disadvantage in this solution. **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Apart from the little intuitive interface, I have not noticed any more disadvantages of this solution. ### 15. Fantastic Virtual Private Computer Service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** KATERINA F. | Executive Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** Extremely fast, never have a problem with the server, at the moment cant say that the server went down. About support, I had a problem with the internet conection and I received a solution in 5 minutes, the team support is amazing, replied quickly and fixed in the same way. **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** Well is not easy get use to, the interface can be complicated to navigate and use wrong pages frequently. About the price is a litte expensive, the first year trial isn't cheap, there's another options out there who provide those specifications at a very cheap **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing and testing applications on the cloud server ### 16. Helpful for Security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Commercial Real Estate | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** For security, this is great because there is a secure encrypted-like file sending service. I love the ability to have security with my messaging. **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** I dislike that there isn’t an app or a section for amazon private link to personalize or enable certain aspects of the service in the amazon app. **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Business problems being solved include the security truly being effective. At our company, we have important files that can’t be shared with others as it contributes to a bigger cause. ### 17. VPC Dashboards **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** Security is one of the best feature on amazon web services **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** Always conmtacting Amazon webservices for limint request increases is a bad idea **Recommendations to others considering AWS PrivateLink:** i dont have any **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** When you acidentally delete the CF stack in the VPC you cannoy retrieve after the VPCX is released ### 18. A long-awaited solution for all AWS customers **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tone C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** Help me running virtual private clouds to directly access storage and database services without routing traffic onto the public internet. **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** It is not free.Even though the price is minimum you still have to pay for it. **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** PrivateLink makes APIs available to customers inside their virtual private clouds, delivering greater availability and scalability. ### 19. AWS privateLink **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** simplifies the security of data shared with cloud-based applications by eliminating the exposure of data to the public Internet **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** This is the one issue I came across: Availability Zones in my account might not map to the same locations as Availability Zones in another account **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trying to secure my company data on the cloud and confidentiality of the data Cloud based server where employees can access the data without any breach ### 20. Migrated from EC2 to VPC **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** Security features are robust and safe when compare to EC2 **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** VPC configuration is not very intutive.Need to follow manual **Recommendations to others considering AWS PrivateLink:** Improve customer service latency **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** VPC provides great amount of security compared to EC2. Nodes launched within a VPC aren’t addressable via the global internet, by EC2, or by any other VPC ### 21. Ease of Use is amazing **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** The user experience is amazing. It is extremely intuitive and i can just look at it and find what i want. There is a lot of confusing stuff out there, but this is something totally different. Perfect product **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** It just gets a bit confusing at times, and a bit complicated **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just using it as a software. A lot of benefits like it has better UI ### 22. AaJ **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anita J. | Self Employed, Law Practice, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** I like the fact that you have your choice of privacy **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** Ni dislikes not really nothing to complaint about **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Im assuring others of their priivacy ### 23. Decent Product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** Easy to use. Allows me to not have to worry about payments, as they process them automatically. **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** I have not come across anything I do not like as of yet. **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows my payments to be process securely, which keeps my customers happy. ### 24. Smart way **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS PrivateLink?** Wide variety of options . Provide high security **What do you dislike about AWS PrivateLink?** I not think there is any weakness in that software **What problems is AWS PrivateLink solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wide room to share and work in groups - [View AWS PrivateLink pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-privatelink/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-02+19%3A44%3A55+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=58317a20-cddb-43f8-ab99-3f8986457804&secure%5Btoken%5D=218d9c36ef3eee74eec790f00cf92777c52593ae166dcbc396c5cfa13214925b&format=llm_user) ## AWS PrivateLink Features **Customization** - Custom VMs - Console Configuration - Operating Systems **Data Protection** - Data Masking - Data Encryption/Security - Data loss Prevention - Anomoly Detection - Sensitive Data Compliance **Cloud Visibility** - Data Discovery - Cloud Registry - Cloud Gap Analytics **Infrastructure** - Network Management - Virtual Machines - Security - Maintenance - Scalability **Analysis** - Cloud Gap Analytics - Compliance Monitoring - User Analytics **Security** - Data Security - Data loss Prevention - Security Auditing **Management** - Cloud Migration - Storage Management - Analytics - Database Management - Logging **Administration** - Auditing - Data Discovery - Access Control **Identity** - SSO - Governance - User Analytics ## Top AWS PrivateLink Alternatives - [Google Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)](https://www.g2.com/products/google-virtual-private-cloud-vpc/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (74 reviews) - [Azure Virtual Network](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-virtual-network/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (26 reviews) - [Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/acronis-cyber-protect-cloud/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (1,357 reviews)