G2

Sanket O.

Software Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/4/2023

"Reliable, stable, and high performance cloud services platform"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Local Zones?

All the services provided by AWS are now available on the servers situated in the nearby area, hence providing an extreme improvement in performance. This enables to incorporation time critical functionalities in the application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Local Zones?

Since the services provided by AWS are extremely good, reliable, and stable, their pricing is also a little more compared to others, but only for specific services.

One needs to be very careful while enabling any service as if by mistake enabled any wrong service and is kept on, it just adds up to the bill. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Local Zones solving and how is that benefiting you?

For our application, there are users, who are from the Eastern region of the world, who access our application and its services hosted in the Western region. The services, for example - calculate and return the suitable options to the user based on their input and data available in the database- took quite some time to complete their operations successfully and show results to the users. Due to this, the wait time on the user's end was substantial and this became one of the reasons for users dropping off or closing the application.

After introducing the AWS local zones, we were able to reduce the turnaround time significantly, because the time-critical services were now hosted in the nearby servers. Hence, we observed an improvement in the drop rate.

This is not the only benefit we have achieved, the services or functionalities that are region-specific were deployed to the local servers, and we encountered drastic improvements in the deployment process and the risk of disrupting the other services/functionalities was also eliminated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.