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Amazon EC2

Composite Score
9.1 /10
CX Score
9.3 /10
Category
Amazon EC2
9.1 /10

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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Awards & Recognition

Amazon EC2 won the following awards in the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service category

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Amazon EC2 Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+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?

2% Negative
2% Neutral
96% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Cloud Integration

88

Load Balancing

88

Capacity Management

87

Encryption and Decryption Support

87

Cloud Backup

87

Access Management

86

Systems Performance Management

86

Data Migration

86

Analytics and Reporting

85

SLA Management

84

Workflow Management

84

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Business Value Created

87

Quality of Features

87

Breadth of Features

87

Ease of Data Integration

85

Ease of Implementation

85

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

85

Availability and Quality of Training

84

Ease of IT Administration

84

Usability and Intuitiveness

84

Ease of Customization

84

Vendor Support

84

Amazon EC2 Reviews

Prasad G.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2023

Easy to use and superb product

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

Variety of products

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Quick and reliable

What do you dislike most about this product?

None as of now

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Good, continue the same

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy

Tessa D.

  • Role: Operations
  • Industry: Consulting
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2023

Amazing and flexible tool.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

AWS’s EC2 service is very outstanding. Thousands of programs and operating systems will be available for installation. When configuring DNS or managing ports, it is straightforward to utilize. Because of their simple user interface, it’s quite simple. Everything is pre-configured when I install applications from the EC2 marketplace. Backup with snapshots is straightforward, however, it will cost me money. I may select the operating system and estimate the cost. This will prevent any unexpected expenses. I like how easy it is to set up the EC2 computers. It is a quick process that takes less than an hour.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 is a sophisticated and user-friendly cloud computing platform that allows customers to swiftly construct and operate virtual servers with customizable configuration and scaling options. The AWS Amazon web service has many more functions, and they are constantly adding new ones. What I like best about Amazon Web Services is its cost management. In addition, Amazon Web Services offers some free credits to new users as well as certain free services to test its services. AWS has an outstanding support team, and their service is excellent. Furthermore, the interface is extremely user-friendly and dependable.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Although the cloud services and functionalities featured in the platform are excellent, certain upgrades are required. When using the Firefox web browser, the new dashboard loaded with additional capabilities occasionally gets stuck in the middle. Apart from that, every feature is excellent and useful.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This is the finest platform for startup cloud businesses to try out its free tier for a year before paying per use. The latency of IP addresses and DNS servers is exceptionally low, resulting in excellent connection and availability over the internet. Some of its most noteworthy features include disc management, cloud backup, cloud snapshots, and data snapshots, which make the cloud service provider more appealing.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Mellisa Andry P.

  • Role: Sales Marketing
  • Industry: Other
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

Best platform and is simple to use.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a fantastic cloud computing platform. Amazon EC2 can scale resources based on demand. It enables us to scale up or down based on the requirements of our application. Amazon EC2 provides a diverse set of Instance kinds. We can select the CPU, memory, and GPU based on our needs. It includes several examples of operating systems such as Linux, macOS, and Windows. It offers a CLI interface for accessing instances. It is simple to connect via SSH and manage the entire VPS server from our terminal. Amazon EC2 is extremely safe and dependable. For Amazon EC2 instances, it features a flexible pricing approach.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

For running software, EC2 offers the most dependable, fault-tolerant, scalable, and highly available cloud computing instances. One of the best features of EC2 is auto-scaling, which helps the company save money by scaling back resources when it's not in use and ramping them up when it is. In addition, a variety of EC2 instance types are accessible depending on computational requirements and spending limits.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The learning curve associated with AWS Cloud’s wide service offerings is one possible disadvantage. Furthermore, due to the complexity of pricing schemes, managing and optimizing expenses might be difficult.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

One of my favorite AWS services is EC2. The most useful feature for me is the SSM login via console and user-data feature. Its benefits include easy management via autoscaling groups, launch templates, target groups, and storage management via EBS and AMI. Service that is simple to utilize. I can easily manage server settings using launch templates and use these templates to run my servers.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy

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