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
Revanth Reddy Y.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Aug 2021
AWS has best features ever.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The UI design visually is pretty outdated but the intuitiveness is still there which makes it very easy to navigate and use the platform
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The best part of AWS is the features and services provided make it very easy to build, deploy and manage our applications.
What do you dislike most about this product?
nothing as I have used so far apart from the fact that UI is pretty outdated.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
My opinion won't matter when you look at the services they provide, it's a no-brainer.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Koutarou K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Communications
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Aug 2021
You can use a high-performance cloud server
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon AWS is a computer platform that doesn't need a physical server; the expense of purchasing the hardware itself can be avoided and an economical web server can be created.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
You can select a Windows or Linux operating system, and you can complete server installation in a few minutes. You can log into the server securely using a pair of keys. Adjustable to raise or decrease server power. The server can be installed in a simple process and capability can be flexibly scaled. After registering a single account, you can access it directly by logging in.
What do you dislike most about this product?
AWS expertise is necessary to use different features and resources effectively. If you do not have a trained engineer, you can consider using support services.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The server can be mounted quickly and cost-effectively, and its capacity can be expanded or decreased flexibly. It is easy to use for a range of pricing plans and protection is great. In addition to the Amazon brand success that is expanding around the globe, we still have a high proportion of cloud providers both in India and around the world. Not only English, European, Arabic, and Asian languages are allowed. The protocol to install a server is straightforward: first, log in to AWS and pick the type of instance (web server type) and template required. You can use an easy-to-use template, such as a Windows-based or Linux-based templates
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Nancy P.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Aug 2021
Fantastic data management platform
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon Web Services is the most effective tool for cloud data management I have used in my working experience.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like the capability of this platform to offer solutions of data management. Our cloud services are well managed with no incidence of data lost. Our websites are well managed and we are able to get ontime analytics that are very helpful.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I have not experienced any challenge from the performance of this product.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Cloud services and data management can be effectively implemented with Amazon Web Services.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service