What is Amazon EC2?
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 500 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model to help you best match the needs of your workload. We are the first major cloud provider that supports Intel, AMD, and Arm processors, the only cloud with on-demand EC2 Mac instances, and the only cloud with 400 Gbps Ethernet networking.
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91 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+94 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Enables Productivity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
SriHarsha K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2024
Flexible, Scalable Cloud Computing with Cost Optim
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
EC2 offers a wide range of instance types (general purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, GPU-based, etc.), allowing users to choose the best resources for their specific workloads and provides automatic scaling, enabling applications to adjust in real-time to changing traffic demands, which ensures high availability and cost efficiency. Provides offers options like spot instances and reserved instances, enabling businesses to reduce costs significantly by leveraging unused capacity or committing to long-term use.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of Amazon EC2 is its scalability and flexibility. EC2 lets you easily scale your infrastructure up or down based on demand, making it perfect for dynamic workloads. Whether you're running small applications or handling enterprise-scale traffic spikes, EC2 adapts seamlessly without requiring manual hardware changes.
What do you dislike most about this product?
EC2’s pricing model can be confusing, especially with multiple options like on-demand, reserved, and spot instances. Without careful planning, costs can quickly spiral, making it hard to predict expenses and flexible,
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
EC2 offers a wide variety of instance types. Choose instances that align with your specific use case and provides EC2 Auto Scaling to optimize performance during peak demand and reduce costs during low-traffic periods and advantage of EC2's spot and reserved instances to lower costs, especially for flexible workloads.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
Arnaldo Ariel A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2024
All the power of the cloud
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It is easy to use and manage.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The flexibilty to launch instances with only few clicks.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing to dislike.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Go ahead and use it.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Akalezi T.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2024
Easy to navigate the AWS console
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Honestly, Ec2 and azure VMs literally means the same thing. No tangible difference between them.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I love the UI friendliness of AWS. The documentation couldn't be better, it's perfect.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing, it serves it's purpose.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
As long as you need access to virtual infrastructure and you don't want to worry about maintenance, AWS ec2 instances is the way to go.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Cons
- Charges for Enhancements
- Less Transparent
