AWS customers tweet their praise -- and concerns

• Modern Infrastructure staff
• Published: 17 Sep 2015

More than one million customers rely on Amazon Web Services, which can result in wildly divergent opinions. And social media has become a place to levy criticism or praise about a person, place or business.

We took a look at just a handful of thoughts on Twitter about Amazon Web Services (AWS). While some AWS customers were pleased with their cloud experiences, several offered ways in which Amazon could make improvements. The diverse set of comments ranges from retirement of instances to a comparison to Tom Selleck's moustache.

Here are a few of the suggestions offered by users with the hashtag "AWS."

Happily deploying a #Rails app to #AWS from the car in the middle of nowhere... and to think how little time ago mobile browsing was novel.

— Tim Unwin (@tpunwin) August 19, 2015

A world without #AWS is like bread without butter, or Tom Selleck without the moustache. A scary place indeed: http://t.co/KYsGn5chkQ

— iFollowOffice (@ifollowoffice) August 19, 2015

Has anyone out there had a successful experience with #AWS #Glacier, is it the most convoluted pricing model you have ever seen ?

— Avron Olshewsky (@avrono) August 19, 2015

More #AWS Lambda savings today. Eliminating the need for servers left and right.

— Ben Newton (@BenENewton) August 18, 2015

#aws support is getting really crappy these days

— Rhodie Hinkens (@zbozi) August 18, 2015

The fact that even #AWS's login form is still basically #Amazon's first login form amazes me.

— Rémy Sanchez (@Xowap) August 18, 2015

"Amazon EC2 Instance scheduled for retirement" - Oh I do love these emails. There goes my evening! #AWS #EC2

— Dave Jennings (@davejjennings) August 11, 2015

Love it when #AWS restarts an instance BEFORE sending me a notice that they need to restart an instance.

— Tony (@TonyDMags) August 11, 2015