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
Praveen T.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2021
Best cloud provider to choose that not disappoint
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The legacy of introducing new features and products in the platform makes it unique than other players in cloud.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The IAM feature. The feature is simple, very secure and does a fantastic job delegating access to other users.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The old and not modern looking UI. The players like GCP has very modern and appealing UI.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Try using their Lambda feature, it saves a lot of costs for the compute needs.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
Tanner C.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2021
Great database management platform
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
This is the best platform for data management in the cloud.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It offers excellent data storage services in the cloud. It has the capability to securely keep data and release it upon the user request. It has great support team that is always ready to give assistance.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I have no complain from the performance of this great product. It has performed beyond our expectation.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommend Amazon Web Services for excellent web and cloud services.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
- Saves Time
Jash G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2021
BEST CLOUD SERVICE
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What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Aws provides many types of pricing like (I) Per Hour, (II) Free tier , (III) Free Trial Per Minute and in terms of security it provides the role based control features. this thing differentiates AWS from other similar products.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect is: Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 service this two services provides the best cloud storage and used for the better instances on few clicks to the developers.
What do you dislike most about this product?
My Dislike are: 1. User interface and layout of the panel 2. Sometimes the developer gets confused which type of service they want to choose(Supportive Document).
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Please make the update on the User Interface and layout of panel & provide the proper documentation of all of the services, so that the developer can choose the right service.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity