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
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- Acts with Integrity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Allan k.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2022
Absolutely best public cloud provider tool.
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What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The best thing about AWS is that it is easy to use and create an instance making it easier than other cloud systems. The free tier account offered by this platform enables beginners to easily learn and explore the services.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The best thing about this platform is that it provides a very quick deployment of services. This is mainly for us who are working on multi-cloud environment.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Some services offered are at a high cost compared to their function.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This platform is such a great one to easily economise and use.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Efficient Service
Manish A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Electronics
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2022
Best cloud computing platform
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What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
AWS provides multiple services in one platform like EC2 instances for the deployment of applications, RDS for database, elastic search, and Redis everything can is available to use from AWS, also AWS conducts many webinars so that developers can understand and use these services effectively.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Aws is backed with massive infrastructure, whenever we require any load enhancement we can simply do this by scaling up our applications, AWS gives us control in scaling up and down based on our requirements.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Macintosh EC2 instance is not available in AWS.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I highly recommend every organization use AWS for cloud computing.
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- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Unique Features
- Efficient Service
ALPER K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2022
A new era in Cloud Technology
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What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
* Very easy to use. * You use and you pay. You do not have to pay for services that you do not use .
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
* Deployment
What do you dislike most about this product?
* I prefer Pod technology that I used in Kubernetes.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
* Please use similar technology with Kubernetes.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Unique Features