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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
Kenneth M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2023
An excellent technological tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Something that distinguishes this instrument from others is that each of the management jobs is abstracted from the hardware and can govern your application to a high degree. From server management, storage, networking, scaling, stability, and stability copies, everything is managed through the EC2 dialer. You can maintain control of access to your resources, monitor and log the application, and make resources across availability areas and regions.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like this system because it is flexible and scalable. You can also provision and grow resources such as compute feed intake, storage, and network based on your application needs. EC2's scalability allows you to respond to changes in your workload, ensuring that your application continues to run smoothly, even as traffic increases.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It is not such a simple instrument for everyone and requires significant resources to govern
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For beginners, start with the Amazon EC2 documentation and try to understand the basics of running instances.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
Sumit V.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2023
Master of cloud
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It provides unix, linux and every possible type of OS available , which makes very easy for the developer to use instance whatever suits for their application.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is very easy to connect through aws console. It is easy to create ec2 instances and start working on them.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The trial period could be extended and storage should be increased while on trial period.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If someone wants to run their application on cloud based solution then ec2 from amazon is the best one available in market.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Jhon J.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2023
Understanding EC2 Instances
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
- EC2 provides a lot of pricing options. The options can be on-demand, reserved, and spot instances which allows the user to choose as per their requirement , need and budget. - EC2 offers different type of instance for compute , memory storage , GPU intensive task. Depending upon our requirement we can choose the one - EC2 provides top notch security with the help of virtual private clouds and network access list so our infrastructure becomes robust - Spinning up EC2 is very easy. It can be done from command line , API or from EC2 console.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
- Present in almost all the regions so spinning up 2-3 EC2 at different regions can make the app truly global with almost low latency - Setting up the load balancer so depending upon the load it can easily scale the instance in or out saving a significant amount of money - Health checkup of instances and notifying if any instance is down.
What do you dislike most about this product?
- New user might be thrown with a wide variety of instance option and might choose a wrong instance. - They are hosted in AWS data centers in different geographical location so there might be network latency if not properly configured. - No access to underlying hardware.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
- Understand the requirement and choose an EC2 instance accordingly. - Use auto scaling and monitoring tools like cloud watch to track the metrics and to know if instances are over or under utilized
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Reliable
- Effective Service
- Security Protects
