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
97 Plan to Renew
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87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+94 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Helps Innovate
- Respectful
- Reliable
- Security Protects
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Simran T.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Shipping
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2026
Best Backend Deployment platform with load-balance
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Basically all other provider are not providing the services like connection of cloudwatch to see logs as well as alarming on ec2 load balancing as well as networking from which ip address it should be allowed and i need the deploy with nginx services with pm2 clustering so it will balance the stuff easily for backend
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
best part is the cloudwatch and other services integration of aws cloud with auto load balancing on traffic so website not goes down i need sometime peak comes it should able to handle the traffic so i have choose this services and it is best for deployment for backend with cpu utilisation as well
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing everything is fine and it is best for deployment with scalability
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I will recommend this who are looking for backend development with scalability this will be best place
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
- Effective Service
Kate B.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2026
Keeps My Photography Business Rolling Non-Stop.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The combination of scalability and the rich AWS infrastructure allows me not to worry about outgrowing the platform – there is simply nothing else like it.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The reliability was my main reason for making the switch. I can now count on having my client galleries and large files available at all times without worrying about any server downtime.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Figuring out the pricing structure took some time. Before knowing how many instances I really needed, I was spending more money than necessary.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Start with a smaller scale, utilizing the free tier first. This will allow you to understand your actual resource consumption better.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Dushyant S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2026
Amazon, ml workloads aren't bound by infrastructu.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
To scale training jobs inference services and data pipelines individually. Compute resources can be dynamically allocated based on workload.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
On demand scaling makes experimentation faster and custom environment setup is useful for ml pipelines.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Wrong choices in resource selection can impact performance and additional tooling is required for orchestration.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Amazon ec2 is strong in this regard because it provides both scale and control for ml workloads.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Respectful
- Fair
- Continually Improving Product
Cons
- Less Productive
- Less Efficient Service
- Less Effective Service
