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
Mukesh T.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2022
Ec2 is easy to launch and fantastic product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Better features and support from AWS technical team
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Security, scaling and load balancing
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing for now
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Better gui and easy to launch
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Susan K.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Utilities
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2022
Great tool for management of resources.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Centralized position for resource management. All services are offered on the same platform. High security due to provision of an access key to login.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Extension of payment period. Easy tp learn and use. Trusted vendor.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Cost breakdown of services. A bit pricey.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
You need Amazon EC2 to manage different instances and services.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Ayooluwa A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2022
Highly recommended Cloud platform
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 is very easy to setup. There's a wizard for every deployment that makes setting up and configuration of any services on Amazon easy to deploy.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of this product is the Dashboard. You can navigate to almost every part/section of the Amazon cloud infrastructure from the dashboard
What do you dislike most about this product?
I think the only thing I dislike about this product is that there are so many features, that it can be hard to find what you are looking for but thankfully there's a search bar that makes this easy.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Easy to setup cloud platform, It's very scalable and easy to manage as well.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing