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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
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Swapnil P.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2022
Astonishing Product, nothing comes close to it
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 is way ahead of the all the competitors in the market. The range of features available are very good.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The scalable feature of EC2 instance for resources as per the traffic on the instance is awesome. The monitoring and logs can be viewed to troubleshoot the issues. Security is awesome.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes due to burst of traffic it takes time to scale up. And can go into frozen state.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
A great product to have if you are starting your cloud journey.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Trustworthy
- Inspires Innovation
- Altruistic
priyank s.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2022
The Ideal Cloud Platform
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It's simple to use and manipulate. Everything is done with a single click, from creation to termination. Even customizing the configuration is not difficult here, and for practice, it offers a free tier account for an entire year.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The finest aspect is the AWS EC2 servers, which are highly inventive and nimble in nature, and can be scaled up and down at any moment. I can buy EC2 instances at any time and add more if needed, which gives us full flexibility and is very important for our overall application, so this is the one I like the best. On the other hand, I also like the AWS console, which is easy to use and view and provides all the little details related to our multiple AWS accounts, reports can be easily imported from there, and I also like the platform's premium support service, which is cost-effective.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I'm not thrilled that it doesn't regard deleting and terminating in the same manner. Allocating resources might take time, and the default allocation limits are not high. And it becomes quite expensive once the free tier period expires.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The finest part is that they provide a wide range of services. Many are included in the "Always free" and "12 months free" programs. This provides some opportunities without requiring any investment.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Unique Features
- Efficient Service
Manish M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2022
A Fantastic Platform for Cloud Infrastructure
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon Web Services is the most comprehensive and user-friendly public cloud platform, allowing us to easily run our infrastructure and business applications. We've been utilizing this cloud platform for over four years and haven't looked back. AWS offers a wide range of outstanding commercial services and solutions, including IoT, Big Data, AI/ML, Games, media services, and many more. Most of the time, I use AWS computing features. AWS EC2 and AWS Lambda are the two that I use on a daily basis; they are fantastic; I can transfer all of my loads to the EC2, which provides full scalability and flexibility.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The option in which I have full access to change the OS and region at any time according to my requirements, and on the other hand, I can switch to different exactly similar services at any time, is the one that I like the most about the AWS cloud platform. Apart from this, I also like the saving plans option in which I have the option to do the reservation of the instance such as EC2 & RDS. I can make a full reservation and save or reduce cloud costs, and I also like the console of this platform, which is very user-friendly and allows me to see all of the information.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I dislike the integration; there are many third-party APIs and platforms available for integration, but the process is not seamless and requires constant technical support; thus, this is the only thing I dislike.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I have many options, such as on-demand options, in which I can run all instance types on-demand without any commitment or payment, and on the other hand, I can choose spot instance to lower the cloud cost by 80%, and I also have saving plans options, such as EC2 and RDs, which provide even more savings. This platform's console is simple to use and intuitive. I'm using the AWS console to download billing and usage reports; this allows me to download the reports in CSV format. As a result, my overall experience with this cloud platform has been excellent.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
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- Vendor Friendly Policies
