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
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Ashwin K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2023
Superb and Effective Solution!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 features and the scalability of the product
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Amazon EC2 is easy to implement and use. The experience of working with EC2 is enhanced because of it's performance.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes the VMs go in unhealthy state and the chances of getting it corrected is minimal.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It's one of the best products in the market.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Sandeep J.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2023
Easy to use, but a bit pricey
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Some of its qualities: Extensive Global Infrastructure Flexible Instance Types AMI Marketplace Security and Compliance Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
AMI marketplace & Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling
What do you dislike most about this product?
many services they launch within shorter period which literally difficult to understand new services always.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
AWS EC2 is more scalable than any other cloud services in the market, elastic load balancing and autoscaling, these are the best services that AWS offers, anyone can go with this popular AWS EC2 instance for their production based requirements.
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Effective Service
- Respectful
- Continually Improving Product
Mehmet Emin O.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2023
Saves us great
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
We're using EC2 machines to save a lot ot from data engineering and backend aspects.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
If a tool saves from your server cost up to 1000 USD annually, what's there not to like
What do you dislike most about this product?
Our GPU machines are working very fast, if Amazon provide more caring support it would be great
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would definitely recommend to get better deals from Amazon rather than Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing