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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- Reliable
- Respectful
- Enables Productivity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Manish M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2022
A Fantastic Platform for Cloud Infrastructure
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon Web Services is the most comprehensive and user-friendly public cloud platform, allowing us to easily run our infrastructure and business applications. We've been utilizing this cloud platform for over four years and haven't looked back. AWS offers a wide range of outstanding commercial services and solutions, including IoT, Big Data, AI/ML, Games, media services, and many more. Most of the time, I use AWS computing features. AWS EC2 and AWS Lambda are the two that I use on a daily basis; they are fantastic; I can transfer all of my loads to the EC2, which provides full scalability and flexibility.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The option in which I have full access to change the OS and region at any time according to my requirements, and on the other hand, I can switch to different exactly similar services at any time, is the one that I like the most about the AWS cloud platform. Apart from this, I also like the saving plans option in which I have the option to do the reservation of the instance such as EC2 & RDS. I can make a full reservation and save or reduce cloud costs, and I also like the console of this platform, which is very user-friendly and allows me to see all of the information.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I dislike the integration; there are many third-party APIs and platforms available for integration, but the process is not seamless and requires constant technical support; thus, this is the only thing I dislike.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I have many options, such as on-demand options, in which I can run all instance types on-demand without any commitment or payment, and on the other hand, I can choose spot instance to lower the cloud cost by 80%, and I also have saving plans options, such as EC2 and RDs, which provide even more savings. This platform's console is simple to use and intuitive. I'm using the AWS console to download billing and usage reports; this allows me to download the reports in CSV format. As a result, my overall experience with this cloud platform has been excellent.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
Cons
- Vendor Friendly Policies
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Shirley o.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Energy
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2022
Reliable EC2s, but a bit inflexible
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The unique Deep Learning AMIs to train large models
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Provides complete data security. Has consistent uptimes. The on-demand usage and pricing model is quite favourable.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Requires you to scale up CPU and RAM separately.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
We self manage our own Apache Airflows on EC2 instances. Amazon EC2 maintains their consistent uptime. It's the best.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
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Monicah G.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Transportation
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2022
The best solution for our problems.I recommend it.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The best part of using Amazon EC2 is that it is much more customizable with different ami and even adjust the compute capacity as our business requires. I like the UI which is always kept as simple as possible so it's not confusing like other cloud applications. AWS documentation is the best in the industry and pricing is very low compared to other similar cloud providers.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like the availability of functions and tools and how easy and simple to use everything is thus saving time. I like its super dynamic speed when it comes to loading data. Also, Amazon EC2 provides the most convenient way for remote instances in spite of the application independence and it really helps to bother less about the management of the instances and we are very much able to focus to enhance productivity.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The only disadvantage is that after the free trial, it becomes a bit pricey.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Amazon EC2 is the problem solver and i recommend it.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
- Efficient Service
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