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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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Emotional Footprint Overview
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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
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
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Load Balancing
Capacity Management
Encryption and Decryption Support
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Access Management
Systems Performance Management
Data Migration
Analytics and Reporting
SLA Management
Workflow Management
Vendor Capability Ratings
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Quality of Features
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Ease of Implementation
Ease of Data Integration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of IT Administration
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Ease of Customization
Amazon EC2 Reviews
Gokul K.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2022
Robust Cloud Solution
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
AWS provides a wide range of features compared to other cloud service providers
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The public cloud platform has a lot of flexibility for organizational needs and is the best in terms of security and backups. The pay-for-what-you-use model is revolutionary, because I can allocate resources that I need and pay for what I use. The scalability and business services are also very useful
What do you dislike most about this product?
Beginners can find it quite complex working through the AWS environment. Also in the view of price point, it is quite expensive
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Consider your organizational needs and choose between the cloud provider as per your budget
Pros
- Caring
- Altruistic
- Generous Negotitation
- Transparent
Vicent A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2022
A lot of functionalities, research it
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
A lot of packages to interact each other
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
it's easy first use
What do you dislike most about this product?
the costs of litte functionalities
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
try it and research all the functionalities
Pros
- Saves Time
- Acts with Integrity
- Client's Interest First
- Continually Improving Product
Cons
- Commodity Features
- Vendor Friendly Policies
Alessandro D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2022
Reliable, Powerful but complex
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon Web Services has everything you need in your cloud infrastructure, It requires a deep knowledge to implement the most advanced features but the service is solid, reliable and effective
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The reliability is the key to this product, Amazon Web Services is something you can count on every day.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It can be frightening to deal with the huge amount of functions but, all in all, the training material is amazing and the support is always there.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
When approaching to AWS just be aware that you are dealing with one of the best in its category, go through the training material, explore and experiment in labs.
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
- Helps Innovate
