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
Kushagra A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2023
Best Cloud management PaaS
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The latency of IP Addresses and DNS servers are very low which makes its connectivity and availability very strong over internet
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is easy to launch an instance and quickly comes up after launching it, it supports all OS and provides excellent features
What do you dislike most about this product?
In complex deployments setting up is a task. Maintaining security configurations and processing updates is a laborious task
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
AWS provides infrastructure on demand, so you pay as you use
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Generous Negotitation
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Rahul A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Banking
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2023
Build for lift and Shift on AWS Cloud
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 is critical for any project cloud migration as company would try to move their low hanging workload to cloud, EC2 help and build confidence in cloud offering on AWS
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Ability to provision different sizes of VMs per our requirement and ability to scale in and scale out on demand.
What do you dislike most about this product?
This is IaaS solution so it comes with its own challenges like it cost more than other serverless options
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are building and trying to move on cloud, EC2 may be best suits for your POCs then explore other was offering depends on your workload.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
Sachin P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jun 2023
Best product in cloud
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It’s the best and the cheapest
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Can spin up a vm in under 5 min which is very quick
What do you dislike most about this product?
Accessibility could have been better
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Go for it as everyone knows it’s the best
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Efficient Service
- Inspires Innovation