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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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91 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
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87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+94 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
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Amazon EC2 Reviews

Koutarou K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Communications
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Aug 2021
You can use a high-performance cloud server
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon AWS is a computer platform that doesn't need a physical server; the expense of purchasing the hardware itself can be avoided and an economical web server can be created.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
You can select a Windows or Linux operating system, and you can complete server installation in a few minutes. You can log into the server securely using a pair of keys. Adjustable to raise or decrease server power. The server can be installed in a simple process and capability can be flexibly scaled. After registering a single account, you can access it directly by logging in.
What do you dislike most about this product?
AWS expertise is necessary to use different features and resources effectively. If you do not have a trained engineer, you can consider using support services.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The server can be mounted quickly and cost-effectively, and its capacity can be expanded or decreased flexibly. It is easy to use for a range of pricing plans and protection is great. In addition to the Amazon brand success that is expanding around the globe, we still have a high proportion of cloud providers both in India and around the world. Not only English, European, Arabic, and Asian languages are allowed. The protocol to install a server is straightforward: first, log in to AWS and pick the type of instance (web server type) and template required. You can use an easy-to-use template, such as a Windows-based or Linux-based templates
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity

Rajesh S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Insurance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2021
The only way to scale
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It is Market Leader and offers the broadest range of services and capabilities that we were looking at. Between Azure and AWS, we went with AWS because of long-term cost benifits.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
the breadth of services and ease of integration with on-prem
What do you dislike most about this product?
It's all great, no complains
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This is the only way to scale. The choice between Azure and AWS would mostly come down to how much it would cost. During our evaluation, we got a better deal from Amazon.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Suvankar B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2020
Fantastic product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
This products is very different to others similar products because this products have exceptional aspects.i like this products.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
amazon web service have may favourite aspects. Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals.it is very useful.
What do you dislike most about this product?
no dislike i like maximum features of this products.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
i recommended it to use everyone because this product is very essential for every it company.very good products.this is fantastic products.
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy