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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
Juro M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2021
Amazon Drive for Business Requirements
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It's used in nearly every department at our company, from HR to Dev-ops. We use it for file storage and secure file sharing across or within teams. In particular, we use [it] in my team to share files within [the] team or with clients who have specific access requests attached to them. It is appropriate for small and medium-sized businesses. Customer support isn't always great, so if your company's needs don't necessitate a lot of assistance, you can go for it. In terms of product trust, I recommend and trust it if your business meets the offering. Amazon Drive recognizes photos and videos in specific folders (that you choose).
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
For important files, videos, and photos, we use Amazon Drive as our primary backup. We do not have access to Amazon Drive as a company. Only the owners have access to it. We don't access the files very often, but it gives us peace of mind knowing that they are safe and accessible in the event of any unexpected IT problems. Amazon Drive is useful in a variety of situations. It works best as a cloud backup - a secure location to store important files, photos, and videos. I wouldn't recommend it for collaborative document management because I believe there are better options. Amazon Drive can be set up to automatically upload specific folders
What do you dislike most about this product?
While it is simple to change user permissions, device management is more difficult than we would like, and file security is critical. If we ever cancel our corporate Prime membership, we will no longer have access to our files. The file storage user interface isn't as user-friendly as I'd like. When I first purchased the plans, they were not entirely clear to me. The only reason I dock it a point is that device management, as a subset of user management, is a little clumsy. It hasn't been a problem so far, but it could jeopardize security in the future. Overall, I'd recommend it. The file storage user interface isn't as user-friendly.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
We haven't needed to use the service for Amazon Drive yet, but based on our previous Amazon support experiences, I expect it to be excellent. Amazon Drive has a comprehensive list of support topics. Contacting the main Amazon Customer Service number - or using their chat or email feature - will get you direct customer support. Overall, this is excellent software for file sharing, storage, and collaboration. Its security is excellent, and its user management is flawless. The only reason I dock it a point is that device management, as a subset of user management, is a little clumsy. It hasn't been a problem so far, but it could jeopardize.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Stephen C.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Biotechnology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2021
Clear industry favourite and customer centric.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Sheer scalability, number of products and choices. Trust plays a big part.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Very customer centric, intuitive to adopt and migrate, many easy to use steps.
What do you dislike most about this product?
AWS is good at making lots of charge points that you need to be aware of and be in control of it you will stack up a lot of payments across regions for AWS usage.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
There is a lot of data out there, reviews etc. AWS has a lot of free training sessions, videos, white papers etc. Use them to built a picture that will make the jigsaw.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Sunny H.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2021
AWS is the leader in cloud services provider
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
AWS Lambda is the most attractive feature which has following features: 1. Supports multiple runtimes. 2. Very easy to build & deploy. 3. Multiple configurations possible (up to 10 GB of memory for one invocation) 4. Very cost effective
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
1. Creating scalable cloud functions for our client to solve business needs 2. Its much cost-effective as compared to traditional Linux servers for our application
What do you dislike most about this product?
1. We must specify the launch configuration beforehand to allow multiple instances to launch
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
1. With the AutoScaling feature, we are onboarding five new clients every week without worrying about load & memory usage. 2. With Amazon Cloudwatch, we monitor the cloud resources used for our product. 3. Create various alarms for auto-scaling, increasing CPU load on EC2 instance. 4. Create custom rules to trigger other cloud resources in our product. 5. Creating scalable cloud functions for our client to solve business needs 6. Its much cost-effective as compared to traditional EC2 servers for our application
