# SimpleDB Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Database as a Service (DBaaS) Providers](https://www.g2.com/categories/database-as-a-service-dbaas) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 51 ## About SimpleDB SimpleDB is a highly available and flexible non-relational data store that offloads the work of database administration. ## SimpleDB Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **accessibility of cloud services** in SimpleDB, enabling efficient job completion anytime and anywhere. (1 reviews) - Users find the **customer support** for SimpleDB unnecessary due to its user-friendly design and operations. (1 reviews) - Users find the **ease of use** in SimpleDB beneficial, allowing for straightforward operations without needing much support. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **fast and powerful infrastructure** of SimpleDB, benefiting from its extensive features and high capacity. (1 reviews) - Users value the **global access** of SimpleDB, enabling seamless system access from anywhere in the world. (1 reviews) - Innovation (1 reviews) - Speed (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users express concerns about **limited free access** to the partner network, affecting their overall experience with SimpleDB. (1 reviews) ## SimpleDB Reviews ### 1. It is just mind blowing how I can access a computer from a different part of the world. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shrevan A. | Customer service representative, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2024 **What do you like best about SimpleDB?** The best thing about Aws is that I can access a system from different part of the world **What do you dislike about SimpleDB?** I dislike nothing about Aws cloud as of now. **What problems is SimpleDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to get access to a system which have niltiple feature which my computer does not have. ### 2. Cloud platform suitability **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** A J. | Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2024 **What do you like best about SimpleDB?** it has a powered infrastructure and it has pay as you gr pricing model. AWS gives more services and features. The infrastructure technology like AI, ML are superfast Number of database can be stored is significantly high compared to other aavailable ones are much better. Customer support is not much needed and the design, operation procedure is easy to use **What do you dislike about SimpleDB?** access to partner network is sometimes not great **What problems is SimpleDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Serverless computing and data storage Data encryption and SSL ### 3. AWS Cloud Info **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** CHANDAN G. | Associate System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2023 **What do you like best about SimpleDB?** - AWS Cloud offers a variety of storage options, including S3, EBS, and EMR. - AWS Cloud can be used to store and process data from applications and websites. - AWS Cloud is a reliable platform that can be used to store data from a variety of sources. **What do you dislike about SimpleDB?** Complexity is a problem that some customers may confront when using AWS Cloud. AWS Cloud offers a diverse set of tools and assistance that may be intimidating to first-time customers or those missing in-depth technical expertise. As a result, having mastered the product's features and fully utilising its capabilities can take time. Another potential issue is the cost. Pay-as-you-go cost on AWS Cloud has several advantages, but it can also result in unexpected fees if users don't actively watch your usage and prices. Furthermore, depending on their specific needs and usage habits, some users could discover that AWS Cloud is much more expensive than other cloud providers. **What problems is SimpleDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I create a lambada function for a synthetic test to test my API every 10 in to get 200 responses if eny thing wrong, then send it to pager duty alert. It helps lots with my service. ### 4. AWS is the best cloud service available in the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vaibhav K. | Programmer Analyst Trainee, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2022 **What do you like best about SimpleDB?** The best upside of aws is that our application can scale up or down based on demand and that it is backed up by Amazon. Amazon provides a database as per your requirement and the database provided by them are completely managed by them **What do you dislike about SimpleDB?** AWS service limits are set by the platform. This problem is familiar with everyone using the aws but we request fewer resources if we wish to. Also, it is a little expensive for personal uses. **What problems is SimpleDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS has increased speed and agility. In the new IT world, nee resources are just a click away and to people like us developers its just a minute away from months. ### 5. I recommend AWS cloud **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anand B. | DGM-Administration & IT Head, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2022 **What do you like best about SimpleDB?** The security is very good, it helps the company feel secure. The speed with which it operates helps the overall functioning of the company. It is consistent in it's functioning. **What do you dislike about SimpleDB?** The things I dislike about AWS is that it's pricing is very complex, if it can be simplified to a certain extent, it will help reach a wider audience. It lags sometimes too. **Recommendations to others considering SimpleDB:** I recommend you to try AWS in your company. **What problems is SimpleDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us to keep the company connected together on cloud. It helps in keeping the company updated with the same data at the same point of time and we do not need to worry about it. ### 6. Finally an amazing cloud service provider **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arpit J. | Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about SimpleDB?** I am jazzed with the feature set available with the platform and the ease with which I can configure according to my needs and tweak with minimal efforts. Really amazing. **What do you dislike about SimpleDB?** Only this that I do not like about AWS Cloud and its different offerings is that they are not very pocket friendly. But above it all, it is worth every penny spent. **Recommendations to others considering SimpleDB:** The bestest of the best cloud solution I ever came across **What problems is SimpleDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** In our organization, we have used the Amazon Web Services for a the most common use case which is the data archival and backups solutions. All our data sits on Amazon cloud. ### 7. Great Deployment option for companies of all SIZES **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2022 **What do you like best about SimpleDB?** Scalable as per needs, Great Customer Service, Affordable Pricing, Pay as you Use, Wide range of integrations and automation, Good Documentation Dump, Great UI, Fast and Reliable **What do you dislike about SimpleDB?** It could be confusing for new users because of so many features available on the platform, You need to do some certifications to understand the platform completely and make the best use of it, Higher Learning curve, Complicated Pricing structure **What problems is SimpleDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a cloud service to host our entire website and disaster recovery. We also went ahead with Amazon Suite of Services like Redshift, AWS Cloudwatch for all our needs. Overall since we use all tools from the same ecosystem, it syncs seamlessly and offers a great experience. As the business scales, our pricing increases as per their pay as you go model. ### 8. Ease it provides **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2022 **What do you like best about SimpleDB?** It provides the automatic updates,. It has also reduced the cost of IT, it provides all the data packages, it has all over the word system, also using cloud frees up our time. **What do you dislike about SimpleDB?** There is actually few things like, the price of it, everyone can't afford it for personal use. Also the competitors are so strong like Azure seems easy to use for the organizations who seem heavy for the windows **Recommendations to others considering SimpleDB:** It helps and easy to use. **What problems is SimpleDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me in the collection of statistics and the analysis of data also the computing.the hosting of file and the data storage that is distributed and also for the other technical support. ### 9. Working with AWS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikhil B. | Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2022 **What do you like best about SimpleDB?** Everything from interactive dashboards to getting to know every database at one place. After migrating our legacy apps to AWS we have got a better metrics of governing , debugging and log review. **What do you dislike about SimpleDB?** Better and timely updates on https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status, so that we are well aware in case of any outages. **Recommendations to others considering SimpleDB:** Try it to know it. **What problems is SimpleDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** What I most like is the interactive dashboards where one can see the complete CPU usage for any pod, most my issues are resolved just by going through them. ### 10. AWS is Doing great work **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** vaibhav k. | Junior Graphic Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2022 **What do you like best about SimpleDB?** AWS has the best cloud computing service in the current market. **What do you dislike about SimpleDB?** It's Every feature is very good and relaxing. **Recommendations to others considering SimpleDB:** People can start it with anything anywhere Just because it's very easy to use and very effective with indoor work **What problems is SimpleDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Aws make deployment easy and gives me the freedom to share my work with anyone in the world. ## SimpleDB Discussions - [What are the benefits and drawbacks of using SimpleDB for your database management?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-benefits-and-drawbacks-of-using-simpledb-for-your-database-management) - [What is SimpleDB used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-simpledb-used-for) - [What is the best way to get started...](https://www.g2.com/discussions/36051-what-is-the-best-way-to-get-started) - 1 upvote ## SimpleDB Pricing - ** Machine Utilization**: $0.14 per Amazon SimpleDB Machine Hour First 25 Amazon SimpleDB Machine Hours consumed per month are free - ** Data Transfer** All data transfer in $0.000 per GB; Data Transfer OUT**: First 1 GB / month $0.000 per GB; Up to 10 TB / month $0.090 per GB; Next 40 TB / month $0.085 per GB; Next 100 TB / month $0.070 per GB; Next 350 TB / month $0.050 per GB - ** Structured Data Storage**: $0.25 per GB-month thereafter First 1 GB stored per month is free* [View full pricing details](https://www.g2.com/products/simpledb/pricing) ## SimpleDB Features **Management** - Real-Time Analytics - Solution Integration - Infrastructure Compatibility - Monitoring **Management** - Disaster Recovery - Remote Backup - Storage Formats - Scheduled Backups - On-Demand Restoration **Configuration** - Application Performance - Orchestration - Database Monitoring - Network Security **Solution Provision** - System Failover - Pay by Usage - Service Provision **Reporting** - Activity Monitoring - Documentation - Alerts/Notifications **Database Administration** - Provisioning - Governance - Auditing **Security** - Data Encryption - Security and Compliance - Deduplication **Availability** - Scalability - Backup - Archiving - Indexing **Security** - Data Masking - Authentication And Single Sign-On - Data Anonymization **Data Management** - Data Replication - Advanced Data Analytics ## Top SimpleDB Alternatives - [MongoDB Atlas](https://www.g2.com/products/mongodb-atlas/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (345 reviews) - [IBM Db2](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-db2/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (598 reviews) - [Oracle Database](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-database/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (918 reviews)