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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
Adam R.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2022
Powerful Cloud Computing with Amazon EC2
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
This Virtual Machine Software is a powerful cloud computing solution that offers users an extensive range of services. This includes running applications, developing websites, deploying databases and more. It provides users with the ability to quickly build and deploy infrastructure without ever having to manage hardware or install software. This makes it much easier for businesses to access the resources they need without having to endure the cost and complexity of purchasing, leasing and managing physical servers.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of Amazon EC2 is the flexibility it offers. It allows me to quickly and easily spin up virtual machines for whatever purpose I need, whether that’s hosting a website, running an application, or testing software. With just a few clicks in the AWS console, I can have my own cloud environment running with no upfront investment.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Setting up DNS records is really difficult when you stop and restart an instance on EC2 since the IP address is continuously changing. Although there is an elastic IP strategy that will stop this, I think they should provide it by default at the same price as an instance.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The capacity to automatically scale both vertically and horizontally using settings or alerts. Hundreds of instances may be easily managed from a single dashboard when the application is under heavy load. Additionally, it is quite simple to version and develop templates to automate the generation of these resources, and there are always ways to check on their health and even prevent keeping instances running that don't contribute to the company's bottom line.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
Surya V.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2022
Maximum flexibility and competitive pricing.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The different service providers are quite mutually exclusive, and one cannot easily use more than one at the same time without dealing with network slowness, etc. So once some companies start with AWS EC2, it's very hard to switch seamlessly. But AWS EC2 is quite good on its own compared to the others out there and can provide almost everything a team needs with minimal effort.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Testing. Spinning up an EC2 virtual machine to test applications, services, etc is invaluable.
What do you dislike most about this product?
This service is a bit difficult to consume. New users need a big learning curve to use this service effectively.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is extremely useful for small virtual servers. For instance, we use EC2 instances for inexpensive unified cloud controllers
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
- Reliable
Pankaj J.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2022
Awesome feature and easy to use
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
One of the great feature of the EC2 is autoscalling
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The ELB is the best for load balancing and it is highly available
What do you dislike most about this product?
I like everything about EC2
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I will recommend to use the EC2
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
