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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
Tharusan S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2024
Gets the job done
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Isn't for everyone but it gets the job done, nothing too special about this but it is consistent
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Nothing, pretty straightforward
What do you dislike most about this product?
Workflow design could be better
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Do some research before you pick
Pros
- Reliable
- Effective Service
- Caring
- Saves Time
Carlos E.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2024
Easy of use, a lot of good features.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Security integration with other AWS services.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
High availability
What do you dislike most about this product?
Lack of live server display
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Create a networking plan before using it,
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Raksha P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2024
Reliable cloud infrastructure
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 differs from other products in a number of ways including its flexibility in offering various types of instances, OS, software packages, its scalability allowing us to scale up or down our capacity quickly, it's pay-as-you-go model offering affordable hourly costs. It easily integrated with other AWS services like RDS, SimpleDB, and SQS. It provides security to our business via using VPC to connect to the secured IT infrastructure to resources.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
As a developer, its scalability allows us to easily expand or reduce the infrastructure according to need. Its pay-as-you-go model helps us to reduce cost allocation and we can choose multiple pricing options like on demand, reserved instances, spot instances. We can integrate seamlessly with any of the other AWS services which help us to build and deploy complex applications.
What do you dislike most about this product?
While Amazon EC2 offers numerous benefits, such as scalability, cost efficiency, and reliability, it can also present challenges. It includes complexity of its pricing models, the steep learning curve for those new to cloud computing, and the potential vendor lock-in. Additionally, performance limitations due to shared resources and network latency, as well as the management overhead of patching, monitoring, and troubleshooting, are moreover reason to disappoint the service.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The recommendation for the products will be depend on the use cases. For example if one wants a overall good alternative they can use Microsoft Azure or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. If anyone needs top-notch security and AI Nsd machine learning services, then IBM will be the good choice.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
