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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
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Amazon EC2?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Sanchit K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2021
AWS - Fully reliable
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon is suitable for any kind of project. It has various features, is highly customizable, and is very cost-effective for startup ecosystems or medium-size businesses.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The reliability provided by Amazon is amazing. Also, it's very good if you want to store backups for long-term, offloading high-volume traffic onto a public cloud that would otherwise run in your on-premise environment.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Overall it's an amazing product. But I think UI can be better, as sometimes it becomes very difficult.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Awesome, Go for it. It's an amazing product. The cost will be high if using for large businesses. But it's recommendable for start-up and medium-sized businesses.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Rohan B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2021
AWS - The correct place to keep your environment.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It's [being] used across the whole organization. The business it addresses is "It enables to scale up IT solutions quickly", we need not do the capacity planning in the upfront and we can start the IT applications within 25% lesser time. Serverless services provided by [Amazon Web Services] help us to focus on writing business logic only, this way it abstracts other things.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Reliable Service Fast and efficient configurations
What do you dislike most about this product?
After deployment management can become a little tricky as there are large number of services to watch over Little costly for large web applications
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is best suited for clients where you need highly scalable and reliable cloud service to host your applications and store your data securely. It provides a wide range of services that can be integrated to design robust solutions.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
Narendra M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2021
Fantastic product for all IT people
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
aws cloud is available with all needed services and infrastructure for software development
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Automation and security
What do you dislike most about this product?
Complex in initial learning phases
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Best cloud services platform
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
