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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.
How much do users love Amazon EC2?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Ramlal S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2022
My first choice for the cloud hosting
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
AWS is my first choice for cloud hosting. They have provided a huge list of services. If you are using AWS then you don't need to worry about the downtime and you can easily manage your servers without putting a lot of efforts. It is super easy and quick.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The best I like is "Pay as you go". I also like the Lightsail service, this is my favourite service.
What do you dislike most about this product?
To be honest, there is nothing to dislike :)
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are looking for effortless cloud hosting then go for AWS right away
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Priyanka A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2022
AWS is a leader as web services.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon web services has provided a big list of services. They have almost covered all the services which are required for the software development. We can create a server within a maximum 2 minutes and can stop or upgrade your system within a couple of seconds
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect is pay as you go. I do use Lambda functions to automatically stop the dev and beta server when the development is not working.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I am still exploring services, I don't have anything I dislike about this tool.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
AWS is a leader, it has a top position in the market.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Rishab A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2022
Great ACL Provisioning
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
We can manage billing centrally which less headache
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
All Audit Logs are centrally stored and we can be prepared for any Security Audits
What do you dislike most about this product?
There are many features, however, there is nothing to dislike AWS for
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Use the trial for 30 days and then decide to go for it
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
