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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
Himanshu V.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2024
Highly flexible and scalable, but complex pricing
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
In that direction, the most prominent of all is Amazon EC2 due to its highly scalable and flexible virtual server infrastructure that offers a wide variety in instance types by workload. Its seamless integration with AWS services will ensure pay-as-you-go pricing, global availability, high security, and extreme flexibility
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
What I like most about Amazon EC2 is that it is very scalable and flexible. It provides easy scaling of computing resources up or down according to demand, hence highly customizable and cost-effective for businesses of any size, whether it is a startup or an enterprise
What do you dislike most about this product?
The least I like about Amazon EC2 is, for sure, how it is priced. With many types of instances, storage, and additional services included, it is rather challenging for a user to correctly estimate costs and keep his or her spending optimized without thorough monitoring and analysis
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If someone is just starting to use Amazon EC2, here are things that I would recommend: 1. First, start with smaller instance types so the person can scale up as needed. 2. Make use of reserved or spot instances to reduce the cost. 3. Monitor usage closely through tools provided by AWS. 4. AWS Integration: Full value realization using AWS for integration.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Luanne G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2024
"Fantastic product!"
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 differentiates itself through broad scalability, integration with other AWS services
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
integration with other services
What do you dislike most about this product?
currently the interaction I had with this product I have no points of dissatisfaction
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
scalability with other services
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Nicki U.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2024
Better than azure but more expensive
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
EC2 instances are simple to set up and the market place has thousands of ready made templates and deployments so anything you want to deploy can be done in seconds as someone has done it previously. Most of our infrastructure for containers and VMs are now in AWS as standard.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The market place of thousands of deployable images and templates for anything you want to do.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Can be difficult to set up or use if you do not have the experience of using AWS in the past. Azure is easier to use but AWS has better features.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are a larger business and want to migrate to the cloud away from on-premise then AWS is the only way to go.
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- Unique Features
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
