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
98 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
- Enables Productivity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Krishna P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2023
Amazon EC2 - ease of use and deployment .
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 is a cloud service where we can deploy our own server based on our specifications like OS, RAM, and CPU besides many other available configurations, launching a new server or instance is easy as the AWS dashboard is user-friendly and less time-consuming, monitoring ECw instance is very efficient as there are many default monitoring metrics are available and you can also create new metrics, pricing can also be optimized according to need and pay for what you use. as compared to other clouds dashboard is user friendly.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
1. Ease of use. 2. many instance options are available to choose from like general purpose instances which can be used for testing and other general tasks where consistent performance is not required, compute-optimized for high computation, and memory-optimized for high RAM tasks. 3. different storage types and IOPS . 4. many OS to choose from like Linux and windows. 5. using these configurations we can fully optimize our server performance and price.
What do you dislike most about this product?
AWS ec2 provides many features which can get confusing as we start using this service so some time and effort is required to understand all features of this service and optimize it according to our use-case.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
if you are considering using AWS ec2, as AWS provides Free Tier usage you can start using EC2 for free and try its feature if it satisfies your use case, also documentation on AWS EC2 is of good quality and many users are on AWS EC2 so any issue faced can be solved easily.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
PETER G.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2023
Amazon EC2 future of cloud business best ever
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 offers broader geographic coverage and it's super fast
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
EC2 offers better workload
What do you dislike most about this product?
Constant changes in rate
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The best cloud computing platform
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Ajeet M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2023
Secure and scalable product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
When setting up, EC2 can employ pre-existing container images and offers faster access through SSH from a terminal as well as availability in different regions.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
One of EC2's best features is how well it interfaces with a variety of other services, such as AWS Cloud Backup, Cloudwatch, auto scaling, etc.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes it is not available due to downtime, and limits the resources by region
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Deploying and setting up a CI/CD pipeline for software development is simple with EC2. Because it cuts down on total development time, I'd suggest Amazon EC2 to anyone who wants to concentrate on scaling without hassle.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
