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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
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Jorge S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2023
Great for cheaper Cloud migrations
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It is cheaper than azure and equally capable.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The Price
What do you dislike most about this product?
It cannot fully replace Azure
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you just need a server in the cloud but no integration with AAD I will say this is the product to go with.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
- Caring
Timo G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2023
AWS overall is great
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 was the first cloud provider of its kind and always leading the way in innovation in terms of number of services
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
There are so many its hard to say. I really like IAM on AWS, its way better than IAM of any other Cloud platform.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Cloudwatch is not great compared to datadog or GCP's logging platform/service
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Make sure to look at all Cloud platforms before settling on AWS. AWS is great just make sure that it is what you are looking for.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Henry E.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2023
Fanstastic Product for Cloud computing
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The best thing about amazon cloud is that it is a secure and scalable, Amazon EC2 has thousands of applications and operating systems ready to install. Also, Backup is simple with snapshots. There are also free-tier instances that individuals can use to explore/test the different services available on AWS
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of the product is the Pay as you use: A secure and simple process that gives you the liberty of paying for only the services you consume/require.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Even though it offers a pay-as-you-go service, if the ongoing services/resources are not terminated while not in use, it might occasionally cause problems, also, Setting a budget for the services that are used becomes difficult due to AWS rate fluctuations.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
AWS EC2 instances avoids the need for you to maintain hardware resources locally. Security and software patching for hardware are all handled remotely by AWS. It also offers excellent backup capabilities so reverting to an earlier version is easily achievable with ease.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
