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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
Pruthavi P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2024
Powerful and Flexible
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Easy to use and easy to integrate with other AWS services
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Easy scalability in vertical and horizontal way.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Data transfer is too much costly.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Easy to integrate the other AWS services.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Sharath G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2024
Best Elastic Compute
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Operating System Support: Both services support various operating systems, including Windows Server, Linux distributions, and other specialized operating systems. Scalability and Elasticity: AWS EC2 and Azure Virtual Machines provide the ability to scale up or down the number of instances based on demand. This enables you to handle workload fluctuations and optimize resource utilization. Networking and Connectivity: Both services offer features for networking and connectivity, such as virtual networks, subnets, load balancing, and virtual private network (VPN) connections,
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
EC2 environment is impressive, the set of tools allows for implementations of all kinds and on the scale that is necessary. Currently there are many configuration options, the user interfaces have improved making the use fluid and very easy to understand. All the implementations that I have had to carry out have been fast and the integrations with the existing resources have not been a problem.
What do you dislike most about this product?
would like to have some extra tool available to manage the operating system of the instances.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
would prefer EC2 compute over other cloud providers
Pros
- Unique Features
- Respectful
- Client Friendly Policies
- Transparent
Sonia M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2024
It's a great product, cost effective and easy to h
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Pruxe as well as many more AWS trained professionals
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Availability of specialist
What do you dislike most about this product?
It's a great product
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Great for hiring and cost purposes
Pros
- Acts with Integrity
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
