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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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Emotional Footprint Overview
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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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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Sandip S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2024
Highly Scalable. Ease of deployment. Security.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It offers variety of instances optimized for different use cases. like compute optimized, memory optimized, storage optimized, GPU, etc. AWS is very large community and it has several other services so ec2 can be easily integrated with other sevices like aws rds, aws s3.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of ec2 is its scalablity. It is very flexible.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The pricing model can be intricate, requiring careful consideration to avoid unexecpected costs.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Go for it, it is best remote computing service.
Pros
- Inspires Innovation
- Includes Product Enhancements
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
Cons
- Commodity Features
- Less Caring
- Vendor's Interest First
Satyam K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2024
You think of using Cloud VMs, EC2 is your answer
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
I think the amount of features it provides are enormous, Ec2 monitoring, ways to connect to your Ec2, great redundancy and availability, 100% reliable with pay as you go feature , Auto scalability stands it out among others.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I think Auto scalability is something which is my number 1 feature of this product.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I don't like the ec2 dashboard UI , its little messy
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Learn how to make better UI from Azure
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Vishal S.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2024
Most secured, best interface & widely used.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It’s reliable and most trusted cloud service providers
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It’s is widely used by most of the clients and it’s best API
What do you dislike most about this product?
No such but they should work on price to compete with other service providers
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It’s highly recommend for those who want to migrate to cloud with huge workloads
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Inspires Innovation
- Respectful
