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
Sunny H.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2021
AWS is the leader in cloud services provider
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
AWS Lambda is the most attractive feature which has following features: 1. Supports multiple runtimes. 2. Very easy to build & deploy. 3. Multiple configurations possible (up to 10 GB of memory for one invocation) 4. Very cost effective
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
1. Creating scalable cloud functions for our client to solve business needs 2. Its much cost-effective as compared to traditional Linux servers for our application
What do you dislike most about this product?
1. We must specify the launch configuration beforehand to allow multiple instances to launch
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
1. With the AutoScaling feature, we are onboarding five new clients every week without worrying about load & memory usage. 2. With Amazon Cloudwatch, we monitor the cloud resources used for our product. 3. Create various alarms for auto-scaling, increasing CPU load on EC2 instance. 4. Create custom rules to trigger other cloud resources in our product. 5. Creating scalable cloud functions for our client to solve business needs 6. Its much cost-effective as compared to traditional EC2 servers for our application
Chinmay D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2021
Most useful product for developer
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon web services come with multiple products like database management, security management, application management it's a complete package for your applications from deployment to database management and hosting.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Amazon AWS has backup options for each EC2 instance also we can pause or shut down any instance whenever we want, also we can monitor price and set alerts for usage and pricing.
What do you dislike most about this product?
We are using AWS for almost 2 years and feels that this is a bit pricey
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Highly recommended to every organization shift themself to the cloud using AWS.
Pros
- Respectful
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
Miguel H.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2021
For something AWS is the most used cloud in the wo
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
AWS differs from the rest because it offers the most complete range of services and products, in addition to an incredible attention to detail in each service they provide. AWS guarantees us a quality that for now we do not see in another provider
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect is that in 1 hour or less I can have a complete infrastructure for an application or development in an easy and timely way (of course, if you know how to do it)
What do you dislike most about this product?
One downside is how overwhelming it can be to see the AWS console for the first time and not realize how many options and configurations you have to have an infrastructure that suits your needs.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you come from a network of on-premises servers, you should consider that the cloud changes the paradigm and you will pay for everything you use, that is why it is so important to optimize in detail the processing and storage requirement that you need for your application, in addition to considering communications and security offered by AWS
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- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing