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
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Ashutosh T.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2022
Most Efficient Cloud Provider AWS
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon web services is one the cheapest cloud i felt while using. The services are at such a low cost. Being a developer we were Lambda a lot for which we paid only for the number of invocation without managing any underlying service.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
lambda is one my favorite service in AWS. It makes us focus just on the development of code & we can deploy & test out the performance without worrying anything.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Not a dislike but I felt there should be more AZ(availability zones) in some more countries.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Just go for it without a second thought.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
Khushal B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2022
aws services best cloud provider
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon Web Services provide the best class of load balancing service for high load application. DNS service was also good for managing DNS in one place. and it's easy to use.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
we are using a blue-green deployment strategy with help of a load balancing service we are able to redirect traffic with new servers automatically.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I'm facing an issue while using the aws-config service. need more improvement on config side service.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Sometimes AWS GUI not working properly.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Maxwell W.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2022
AWS.... Always working spectacularly. I recommend.
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What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon Web Services solved so many business problems of our banking project, especially it helped us to integrate with different third-party applications and deployment of our applications and apart from this we have done a proof of concept on machine learning model where we have used Amazon Web Services for deploying ML models. Amazon Web Services is being used organization wide and has altered the way we perform our vulnerability management, application security, breach detection and IT troubleshooting.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
We utilize Amazon Web Services offering services for computing, networking, storage and security. The wide variety of services available allows us to customize the scale and type of solutions our customers need and anything from web hosting to ML needs are available to us. Large and small problems are being solved by Amazon Web Services offerings. In fact, Amazon Web Services is of tremendous value.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Customer support team behind Amazon Web Services takes longer than expected to respond to customer's requests.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It feels awesome to be part of Amazon Web Services. I recommend it.
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy