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Amazon EC2

Composite Score
9.1 /10
CX Score
9.3 /10
Category
Amazon EC2
9.1 /10

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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Awards & Recognition

Amazon EC2 won the following awards in the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service category

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Amazon EC2 Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+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?

2% Negative
2% Neutral
96% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Cloud Integration

88

Load Balancing

88

Capacity Management

87

Encryption and Decryption Support

87

Cloud Backup

87

Access Management

86

Systems Performance Management

86

Data Migration

86

Analytics and Reporting

85

SLA Management

84

Workflow Management

84

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Business Value Created

87

Quality of Features

87

Breadth of Features

87

Ease of Implementation

85

Ease of Data Integration

85

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

85

Availability and Quality of Training

84

Ease of IT Administration

84

Usability and Intuitiveness

84

Vendor Support

84

Ease of Customization

84

Amazon EC2 Reviews

Camila B.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Lightweight solution with wider system design

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

In the absence of a server, they offer the serverless methodology for deployment and function authoring. Without having to worry about much code, we created an internal, totally serverless API using AWS Lambda and API Gateway. It's a simple approach to starting a task with a fluctuating workload. You can significantly reduce costs in a serverless environment compared to a regular EC2 because you only pay for what you use.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

As one of the most effective services offered by Amazon, Lambda is also one of the easiest to use using CloudFormation. It has scalability capabilities using concurrency facilities provided by AWS, and it is easy to integrate with other services on AWS. Terraform, and Cloudformation can be used to provide all infrastructure. Additionally, the product's pay-as-you-go billing structure may enable serverless web development and ETL.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The official lesson is out of date in certain places. For those with vision issues, the fonts or visibility of the cloud9 IDE can be improved to appear more bright or large. Lambda's documentation is neither extremely detailed nor easy to understand. Getting started could be difficult if you don't seek some tutorial videos. Debugging the logs might be very challenging.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Per our prototype work with AWS Lambda, Python appears to have the best support. The team's primary language is Java, and we have discovered that using it with Lambda can be a little challenging. Lambda functions are simple to build and deploy. We use lambadas for many different procedures that must operate asynchronously and only last a minimal duration.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
  • Effective Service

Snowden M.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Other
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

True disrupting service for the cloud

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

The AWS Lambda experience as a whole is excellent. In the absence of a server, they offer the serverless methodology for deployment and function authoring. Without having to worry about much code, we created an internal, totally serverless API using AWS Lambda and API Gateway. Although you have less control over the surroundings as a whole, there are times when this is the exact situation you want. Fewer possible weak points may result from less power.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

AWS Lambda is inexpensive and easily scaled up. We can monitor the requests' status in real-time, thanks to the close interaction with CloudWatch. AWS solutions like S3, Kinesis, DocumentDB, SNS, and others are easy to integrate. Cost is influenced by computation time. Thus, we are not required to pay for the time it is idle. When a message enters SQS, code can be specified to run. Hence, a large portion of boilerplate code.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The arbitrary time and size constraints set by AWS are particularly annoying and make it difficult to implement our workflows. There isn't any installer or deployment tool that makes it simple to take a Python Virtual Environment and turn it into a Deployment Package that AWS can run. It must at least support scanning the areas where AWS is set up.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The server-less architecture can be managed perfectly with AWS Lambda. This results in less administrative work, which lowers the workload. An excellent serverless computing platform is AWS Lambda. Microservices created in a variety of programming languages can be hosted in a very cost-effective manner. There aren't as many options for the programming language supplied by AWS in comparable server-less offerings from other cloud competitors.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy

Roman-Oko S.

  • Role: Industry Specific Role
  • Industry: Manufacturing
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Intuitive and comprehensive web service

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

Amazon Web Services has aided us in server management by allowing users to respond swiftly on tasks that must be completed and to automate some tasks within the server. This user-friendly atmosphere has enabled our entire workforce become more productive.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We are able to maintain a proactive environment thanks to Amazon Web Services, which allows us all to address issues as soon as they arise. Due to the user-friendly atmosphere, procedures are made simple. There are other additional options, such as the option to select a spot example or a financial plan, both of which are excellent. This product's incorporation is just so much easy and seamless.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Considerations about moving to cloud technology include additional safety, the possibility of data leaking, confidentiality issues, security risks, unavailability, and a lack of control. For someone who is not technically proficient, the installations of some of the sophisticated AWS services might be challenging. Therefore, there is undoubtedly a learning curve involved before using the services to their maximum potential.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Amazon Web Services are used to support nearly every single project we engage on. We are entirely satisfied. It aided us in a number of ways, including hosting our web architecture online, controlling all the video material online on computers, enhancing access rates, and providing security advantages. We are ecstatic with the results we were able to achieve.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity

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