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
Suhani G.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2024
Fast and Efficient Virtual Servers
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 supports auto scaling through scaling groups which makes workload easy and optimizes the overall cost increasing productivity.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Amazon EC2 allows us to change compute capacity as per our requirement and allows to easily manage multiple virtual servers at a time with easy deploy feature.
What do you dislike most about this product?
EC2 have high price for purchasing and we have to pay for whole software rather than for feature and functionalities which we require.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Amazon EC2 offers variety of tools for reducing workload performance and reduce cost for purchasing physical server as with EC2 we can easily manage multiple virtual servers at a time and provides access to multiple amazon services.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Jacob L.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Construction
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2024
A Custom Cloud Powerhouse
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The AWS EC2 offers unmatched flexibility when it comes to launching and managing virtual servers in the cloud. This gives us the power to create custom server environments tailored to specific construction project needs, like complex engineering simulations or resource-intensive design software.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
WithEc2, I can leverage a wide range of server configurations and operating systems to suit any project requirement
What do you dislike most about this product?
The extensive configuration options in EC2 also come with a significant responsibility for managing and maintaining those servers.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If your construction has diverse software needs and requires highly customizable cloud server environments, AWS Ec2 is the way to go
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- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Inspires Innovation
- Altruistic
YOGENDER T.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2024
It's easy to use, it secure and easily accessable
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Easy to use, and can easily create in few clicks.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Very easy to connect
What do you dislike most about this product?
It's secure
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It's totally worth it
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service