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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- Reliable
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Prashil W.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2022
Awesome product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The ease with which you can scale the environment and use the subscription based model for compute requirements
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Pricing and the usage as per your needs.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Accessibility towards the mobile application so we can manage servers on the go.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Just go for Amazon EC2 services and then there's no looking back.
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
- Efficient Service
Nirmesh S.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2022
Fantastic product to use as a service.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 services only bills you for the instance that you used for a given period of time, and based on your requirement. You dont need to purchase hardware or think about maintenance of the product. Just use the compute feature as a service.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
We dont need to worry about the operation and maintenance cost of the instance where we are hosting our services.
What do you dislike most about this product?
At times you will feel the subscription is costly but if you subscribe to long term, you will be saving a lot of cost.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Just go for AWS EC2 services because the services are widely used and it is very easy to use.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
- Security Protects
Rahul w.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Initial Implementation
Submitted Nov 2022
Super Server provider
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. Using Amazon EC2 eliminates your need to invest in hardware up front, so you can develop and deploy applications faster
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is easy to use and configuration is to simple and integration was so easy. Also we con easily monitor the resources.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing as far now
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Please use EC2 servers for website hosting and data analysis.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing