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Amazon EC2

9.0 /10

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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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Awards & Recognition

Amazon EC2 won the following awards in the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service category

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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Latest Award, 2024

10 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Service Experience
Product Impact

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

9 Top Rated Capabilities

11 Top Rated Features

2023

Amazon EC2 Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Amazon EC2?

2% Negative

3% Neutral

95% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Respectful
Security Protects

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Cloud Integration

Load Balancing

Encryption and Decryption Support

Capacity Management

Data Migration

Access Management

Cloud Backup

Systems Performance Management

Analytics and Reporting

Regulatory Compliance

Workflow Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness

Amazon EC2 Reviews

Kishan B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2021

All cloud solutions in one place

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

Amazon Web Service is a very secure, reliable, flexible cloud provider. It is a one-stop solution for all your IT needs.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We have used Amazon Web Services for the web hosting of www.inuua.net for many 3 years now. All our data gets backed on Amazon Web Services and all Static files are hosted using S3. Amazon Web Services seems to be quite dynamic in its functionality. You have so many plans to choose from. The best part is that you only pay for what you use.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Migrating from DigitalOcean to AWS was somewhat complex and we had to undergo some training to manage to do it.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

AWS is a wonderful platform if you plan to be in the cloud 100%. The management interface is very easy to navigate and the depth of the toolset is truly impressive.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2021

Very secure product, easy scaling

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

Pros

Caring
Altruistic
Helps Innovate
Trustworthy

Glenn S.

Role: C-Level
Industry: Banking
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2021

We found it to be a cost-effective service

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

A range of automated functionalities. Easy to implement with our IT resources. Security features are good.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ease of implementation and cost features for licensing

What do you dislike most about this product?

We found that deploying multiple application instances can be a difficult process

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Be sure to have tech savvy IT resources available

Pros

Enables Productivity
Reliable
Trustworthy
Inspires Innovation

Cons

Vendor Friendly Policies

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Amazon EC2 Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Amazon EC2?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Cloud Integration Includes real-time data integration, APIs, and data quality.

Load Balancing Allows distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources.

Encryption and Decryption Support Support for real-time decryption and re-encryption of information.

Capacity Management Monitor system utilization and provide alerts when pre-defined thresholds are reached.

Data Migration The ability to select and extract data from one storage system to another

Access Management Includes social sign-on, external authorization, and fraud detection.

Cloud Backup Includes backup schedules, encryption algorithms, and data support.

Systems Performance Management Includes monitoring, analyzing and configuration in order to optimize performance and increase efficiency.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Regulatory Compliance Includes compliance with regulations and standards such as SOX, HIPPA, NIST, PCI-DSS etc.

Workflow Management Includes ability to support flexible and comprehensive workflow-based capabilities.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Amazon EC2 Reviews

Kishan B.

All cloud solutions in one place

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Very secure product, easy scaling

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Glenn S.

We found it to be a cost-effective service

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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Cloud Integration

Load Balancing

Encryption and Decryption Support

Capacity Management

Data Migration

Access Management

Cloud Backup

Systems Performance Management

Analytics and Reporting

Regulatory Compliance

Workflow Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness