
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

Relishiya T.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jul 2022
AWS for the best public cloud service
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon web services is a cloud platform to run various business services, which requires web apps up and running with minimum resources! The DynamoDB of AWS can run on AWS without any servers so that the use of Relational databases are minimized. It has its auto backup functionalities. cost of hosting services made it simple in AWS. This made simple for the Developers to maintain an application in an Enterprise level
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Favorite aspect of this web service is it’s efficiency and robustness. It resolves the problems by minimizing the cost my minimal usage of resources. AWS cloud helps the IT administration, load balancing services, VPC, cloud storage and cloud computing services.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Almost it contains all the good functionalities to develop and maintain enterprise level applications! the documentation of the AWS could have been made more user friendly for the starters to easily understand and get familiar ( ex: lambda functions)
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommend AWS with my personal experience for its robustness, public cloud usability and efficiency. cost of the application development made simple as it offers pay as you use policy. It provides cloud storage solutions and computing services made it more convenient. It is one of the best and innovative shared cloud platform
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
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Regina-Onica Y.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2022
Versatile and cost efficient tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
We can simply concentrate on our apps because Amazon Web Services manages our infrastructures on a continuing basis. Amazon Web Services assists in lowering our operating costs and risk by establishing a standard to manage our infrastructure. It is the leading supplier of public cloud services, and it's the greatest cloud infrastructure service we have ever experienced.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is a unique supplier since it offers affordable cloud storage that is simple to access from just about anywhere. Additionally, it excels in on-demand cloud computing and enables moving any current operations to the cloud are quick and simple. It offers specialized database management system with the appropriate technologies already included. The aspect about it that I enjoyed the most is the tracking.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Yet when interacting with straightforward jobs or one-on-one coding, the surroundings for newcomers are rather difficult. The rates are reasonable for large enterprises, but they are out of reach for smaller ones.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
We firmly advise all users to adopt Amazon Web Services so they can simply manage and build a suitable atmosphere for addressing all of their concerns, particularly server monitoring and since it provides a proactive environment. Additionally, it offers use bill data and alerts on threshold.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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Roman S.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2022
Intuitive and comprehensive web service
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon Web Services has aided us in server management by allowing users to respond swiftly on tasks that must be completed and to automate some tasks within the server. This user-friendly atmosphere has enabled our entire workforce become more productive.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
We are able to maintain a proactive environment thanks to Amazon Web Services, which allows us all to address issues as soon as they arise. Due to the user-friendly atmosphere, procedures are made simple. There are other additional options, such as the option to select a spot example or a financial plan, both of which are excellent. This product's incorporation is just so much easy and seamless.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Considerations about moving to cloud technology include additional safety, the possibility of data leaking, confidentiality issues, security risks, unavailability, and a lack of control. For someone who is not technically proficient, the installations of some of the sophisticated AWS services might be challenging. Therefore, there is undoubtedly a learning curve involved before using the services to their maximum potential.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Amazon Web Services are used to support nearly every single project we engage on. We are entirely satisfied. It aided us in a number of ways, including hosting our web architecture online, controlling all the video material online on computers, enhancing access rates, and providing security advantages. We are ecstatic with the results we were able to achieve.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
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