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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
99 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
- Acts with Integrity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Shirley o.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Energy
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2022
Reliable EC2s, but a bit inflexible
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The unique Deep Learning AMIs to train large models
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Provides complete data security. Has consistent uptimes. The on-demand usage and pricing model is quite favourable.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Requires you to scale up CPU and RAM separately.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
We self manage our own Apache Airflows on EC2 instances. Amazon EC2 maintains their consistent uptime. It's the best.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
Jyoti A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2022
Powerful, Flexible, And Productive Cloud Service
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
flexibility and scalability for web-based applications with changing traffic. In general, other providers don't give you as many options for optimization so they can deliver the appropriate infrastructure when you need it.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
We were able to connect with the little details required to ensure the flawless operation of the hardware and software engines thanks to EC2. Access management, scalability, encryption, etc.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Unexpectedly, the learning curve was a little steeper. But we appreciated all the resources that made the shift easier. Just finding the right information required some time for navigation.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
AWS is offering a full cloud platform that functions as the benchmark for all cloud services globally and addresses nearly all industry needs with absolute learning and documentation that leads you through the path to the cloud.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Efficient Service
- Helps Innovate
Monicah G.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Transportation
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2022
The best solution for our problems.I recommend it.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The best part of using Amazon EC2 is that it is much more customizable with different ami and even adjust the compute capacity as our business requires. I like the UI which is always kept as simple as possible so it's not confusing like other cloud applications. AWS documentation is the best in the industry and pricing is very low compared to other similar cloud providers.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like the availability of functions and tools and how easy and simple to use everything is thus saving time. I like its super dynamic speed when it comes to loading data. Also, Amazon EC2 provides the most convenient way for remote instances in spite of the application independence and it really helps to bother less about the management of the instances and we are very much able to focus to enhance productivity.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The only disadvantage is that after the free trial, it becomes a bit pricey.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Amazon EC2 is the problem solver and i recommend it.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
- Efficient Service
