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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.
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Vinay Kumar A.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2024
Best Security Platform.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
EC2 allows users to scale their computing capacity up or down based on demand. This scalability is essential for businesses with varying workloads, as they can easily adjust resources to meet changing requirements.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Amazon EC2 offers a wide range of instance types and configurations, allowing users to choose the most suitable option for their specific workloads. This flexibility enables businesses to optimize performance and cost according to their requirements.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I don't have any dislike. Everything is good.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommend this platform for the best security reasons.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Oluwanbe O.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Insurance
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2024
Best cloud service
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The speed of AWS EC2 hardware differentiates it from other similar products, as it makes it incredibly simple and easy to boot up fresh machine images, also, stopping or/and restarting virtual machines is very easy.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I adore the remarkable flexibility and scalability it gives. I also love the EC2 status check feature which is particularly great as it offers failure feedback.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I have been using AWS EC2 for a long time and I am yet to find anything to dislike about the product, there just isn't anything to dislike about the product.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The best thing about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is that it's one of the most widely used AWS Web service products and cloud service, it is incredibly adaptable and quick to start/stop computing resources. Amazon EC2 has the flexibility in choosing the appropriate resource size for your compute needs.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Mogith P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2024
Reliable for production
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Reliability, availability and flexibility to troubleshoot ec2 is great.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Rolling back to previous upgrades by just mounting snapshotted ebs volume.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Patches and updates.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Visibility of underlying VMs health.
Pros
- Respectful
- Fair
- Friendly Negotiation
- Helps Innovate
