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
Mohan P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted May 2022
AWS is the go to solution for most Cloud Apps
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
All Web Apps can be hosted on AWS for a nominal charge
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The after-sales support is awesome
What do you dislike most about this product?
There is nothing to dislike
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
After the 30 day trial , i'm sure you will go with AWS
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Muhammad Daud S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2022
Advance Cloud Solution
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
AWS provides a vast number of services for Tunneling, Storage, VM, IP, and other app services. Amazon works on an advanced level and the structure scalability can be organized based on the organizational requirements. AWS works on advanced protocols to secure VM, resources, and storage and works on a high grid for organizational structure. Storage resources are quite fast to access.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The best aspect of AWS is the speed of resource access and the security grid. The structure of AWS is overall complex to implement but it has a variety of scalability.
What do you dislike most about this product?
AWS pricing tier is quite high, Customer services mostly refer to the documentation and they don't help much with any problem in the first instance whereas Azure customer service support investigates the issue deeply. AWS has recovery issues with Load balancing EC2 Instances that were once terminated, it's unrecoverable.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend anyone purchasing AWS, plan the organizational structure as per the requirements and Infrastructure choices. AWS provides a vast selection of Infrastructure to be designed for the organization.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Sarah A.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2022
Amazon web services, a subsidiary of Amazon.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon is friendly usable because it is designed for quick and secure access. where we can use operating systems, programming language comfortably. The most important benefit is its necessity which gives us the best infrastructure for the privacy of our data which is the highest reliability that is provided by Amazon to its customers.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It provides speed and rapidity for the applications. We can install an application within minutes through a quick setup and we only have to pay for the services we use. This software is among the most trusted software in the industry. Amazon gives us a scalable solution that we do not have to wait and see that they will of our use or not.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Amazon web services are well designed. Amazon services comes with a set of limitations like images and snapshots. Like other software Amazon is also dependent on internet without internet we are out to work. Amazon is country specific if we are outside the country it may not be available.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend Amazon web services because they are flexible reliable and secure to use. We do not have to wait for hours to install this application. Its process is simple and secure and allows simple automatic scaling according to our storage.
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
- Inspires Innovation
- Saves Time