You would be absolute mad to use any other platform. AWS gets it right on the customer service front. Amazon, perhaps deeply less so... but AWS? amazing.
You would be absolute mad to use any other platform. AWS gets it right on the customer service front. Amazon, perhaps deeply less so... but AWS? amazing.
Tech support was always friendly, polite and apologetic, but could not provide help.
The attack was way beyond their level of skill and they insisted in providing instructions that were completely helpless, all manual actions to fight a full scale extremely vicious automated attack (change password, delete instances, disable regions, delete roles, etc).
AWS security got it done in one hour, but it took months to get to them.
That's not to say that Amazon is being altruistic here, I think it just makes good business sense. Foregoing a few thousand dollars for even a tiny chance that a student's future self decides to use AWS for a multi-million spend project down the line is worth it.