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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.
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Madhankkumar S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2023
Best cloud infrastructure to host Linux servers.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The elasticity of the product helps to improve the performance of any application host in AWS EC2. The Amazon infrastructure enables you faster connectivities with other applications as well.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Elasticity. Easy to use. Various flavors of OS to deploy. East to start up a server.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing to be honest, May be costing of the product could have been straight forward.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Any company needs to host an application with scalable infrastructure should definitely try EC2.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Caring
- Respectful
Parth G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2023
Quick and efficient cloud services on the go.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The ease of use and availability. EC2 being one of the most popular products there are lot of articles available in market along with AWS documentation to get started.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Availability of different instance types for every use. Starting from a no code to ML model, you can have ec2 instance for almost anything
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing much, except the windows instance type can be speed up.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Any team planning to move their workload to cloud, can look for the EC2 instance as their on premise service replacement for sure. The ease of scaling up and maintaining the servers is far better than any other cloud providers.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Krinal P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2023
Using Amazon EC2 to Leverage the Power of Cloud
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Flexibility, scalability, reliability and security
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
EC2 employs several availability zones and has automated failover features to ensure that applications stay operational even in the case of hardware or network failures.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes vast range of features are confusing for the beginner
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Its better to use EC2 and other AWS services instead of wasting money on own hardware and configuration.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
