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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
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Finn M.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Dec 2021
Largest Cloud Platform in the World
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Great cloud services, great availability, and great ability to scale and secure.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Capabilities for autoscaling, ease of agility, and OPEX financial structure.
What do you dislike most about this product?
None to mind, great cloud platform with lots of integration
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Personal favourite of cloud platforms.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Fernando M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2021
Many features and easy to implement
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
They have a lot of resources and always bringing new services.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
In general, products and services are cheaper and more widespread around the world.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Documentation and KBs are not so easy to understand.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I really recommend AWS if you are looking for a stable and constantly evolving.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Thomas R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2021
Extremely extensive and reliable.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The scalability of this service is second-to-none and there's barely any latency.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of this product is the elasticity options allowing more EC2 instances based on data pulled from your CPU which help to build the overall environment.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There seems to be some hidden costs when looking at data in-out charges.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Would recommend this to a medium + sized company. he software is nearly perfect for your web services needs but it can become expensive.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Cons
- Vendor's Interest First
