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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
Jonathan H.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Entertainment
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2022
Expensive with basically zero support
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
What differentiates Amazon Web Services from similar products is they were essentially the first provider of its kind. Now that most of its features are ubiquitous among cloud providers, perhaps this is no longer relevant.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favourite aspect of Amazon Web Services is the finely grained access control. Multiple users and groups can be created, and granted access to specifics of each service available on AWS in a unified fashion.
What do you dislike most about this product?
What I dislike most about Amazon Web Services is they have the audacity to not provide support for their cloud platform. Usage of features is relatively expensive, and despite this, support packages are chargeable.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Amazon Web Services has a free tier where you can use smaller instances of their services at no cost. I recommend trying this, but perhaps use a pre-paid payment method, as it fully opens you to costs if you go over the free tier in an equivalent to writing a blank cheque.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Security Protects
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Cons
- Less Effective Service
- Less Caring
- Wastes Time
Shashanka B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2022
Amazing Experience on The Cloud With AWS
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon Web Services has the best services in SASS when compared to any other product out in the market. With well-built documentation, most of the cloud migration can be implemented without a lot of pain
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
AWS has a lot of services and they promote new features to all regions as soon as possible. Reporting, Cost Management, Cloud Watch, Role-Based Access are some of the best features I like in AWS. Supports most of the coding languages with their specific SDKs.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The cost is a little on the higher side. And Governance related services should have better documentation.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This is for sure best suitable for enterprise-level companies. Most of the Services SLA for downtime is 99.999 which is the best guarantee any cloud provider can assure. Reliability matters a lot in a large customer base and AWS helps in upholding it.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Daniella F.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Utilities
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2022
Providing Cloud computing Services
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It is providing easy to use cloud computing services. It has a user-friendly interface. Varieties of applications and services can be accessed through it. It helps in easily deploying programs and software. Vast ranges of tools are embedded in it which helps in managing all your needs at one platform.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is cost-effective as you don’t have to pay for those services that are not being used. You only have to pay for those resources that you are using. No long term contracts and commitments are needed for it. End-to-end security approaches are provided in it. It is providing more organized IT services.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Its billing system is confusing and complicated for small scale businesses. As various services are provided in it, it may be complex for some users. It may be expensive for large scale apps they should use on-premises servers.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
You can get many advantages through it as it is reliable, secure and flexible computing infrastructure. It is flexible as you can easily select programming language, operating system, database, web application platform and many other services.
Pros
- Efficient Service
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
