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
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+94 Net Emotional Footprint
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How much do users love Amazon EC2?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Enables Productivity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Abdellatif H.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2023
Easy and cost-effective
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Cost and effectiveness a
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Cost and security
What do you dislike most about this product?
Complexity
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Go ahead..
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
Cons
- Inhibits Innovation
- Less Transparent
- Less Friendly Negotiation
Willis P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2023
Fantastic product, great scalability
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
EC2 is more flexible and provides better scalability than other options at the time that potentiate the cost optimization based on future capacity planning
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Integration with other services in the AWS ecosystem
What do you dislike most about this product?
Limited golden images for centos linux
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Integrate this product with scheduled event driven lambdas to save money with idle usage of the instances
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
Filippo C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2023
All the cloud machines you need in just one place!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 provides the users with an almost infinite combination of machines and operating systems!
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Customization allows to create any instance you need, from test to develop and production environments!
What do you dislike most about this product?
The EC2 graphic interface in the AWS console is not trivial and needs time for completing instance creation and subsequent changes!
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I definitely recommend Amazon EC2 as the core of your cloud-based business. It supports also an easy integration with other Amazon Web Services.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
