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?
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2020
Fantastic product to run our SaaS business on!
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Dean P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2020
Potential and quality services.
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What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It is a product that offers a minimum of errors without a doubt, it has a very great reputation since its launch, it also has a variety of very powerful services and these are carried in the cloud which reduces the use of additional hardware to make new implementations in the company.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is possible to work with a very important aspect database and of much application at present, both relational and non-relational, it offers services in the cloud in which they are adapted according to the needs of the company. The costs are relatively low and the price varies according to its use, apart from the whole process of implementation it is not complex in a few clicks, the services can be accessed in a simple way however it should be considered that its use is usually complex.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Amazon Web Services some of its services are usually simple however in the IT field, you can take full advantage of its advantages, however knowledge and training is required to use the services and be able to provide the best solutions in terms of needs that arise in the use of AWS services.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
A large platform that offers powerful services in the cloud, offers very low failure probes, and its services are very wide, so its implementation can be useful in any company in which its implementation is necessary, in addition the costs are relatively low, for Therefore, it can be said that it stands out as one of the best options in the current market.
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- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2020
Great for business planning to migrate to cloud
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity