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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- Reliable
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Mattaparthi r.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Initial Implementation
Submitted Feb 2024
A compact instance with powerful auto scaling
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It provides a quality instances with many options with different Ram and Rom configurations for the less price.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It perfectly balances the load based on the number of requestors and easily auto scales increases and decreases the instances automatically.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Helping beginners to provide a free trail in every service will help them to explore all the services .
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It has a powerful instance in the aspect of load balancing and security which helps to login to server using encrypted key and helps to automates the most of the events.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Harish a.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2024
Perfect instance with high performance
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It provides multiple services and provides a great performance with high scalability and provides multiple regions and zones which helps to data backup easily without any data loss.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It provides a different encryption methods instead of password to login to the instance and its auto scaling feature helps so much to automate the instances based on the load it get.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There is nothing much dislike about amazon ec2 but providing an AI assistant with the EC2 instance will improve more quickness and compatibility to the user.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The cloud instance EC2 is the fantastic in the terms of security, scalability, integrity. Not only the performance but also it is available in many zones and regions which helps to protect data even a single zone goes down.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Chiranjib B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2024
Very good website to know about technology
Likeliness to Recommend
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
many users appreciate Amazon EC2's flexibility and scalability, allowing them to easily adapt their computing resources to meet specific needs and workloads
What do you dislike most about this product?
some users might find the pricing structure complex or challenging to estimate accurately, as it depends on various factors like instance type, region, and usage.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For someone considering Amazon EC2, I'd recommend carefully assessing your specific workload requirements and choosing the appropriate instance type. Take advantage of the free tier to experiment and familiarize yourself with the platform. Additionally, optimize costs by leveraging reserved instances for predictable workloads and exploring spot instances for cost savings with flexible applications. Regularly monitor and adjust resources to align with your evolving needs
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing