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Amazon EC2

Composite Score

9.1 /10

CX Score

9.3 /10

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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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Awards & Recognition

Amazon EC2 won the following awards in the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service category

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2025 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2025

10 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

10 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Service Experience
Product Impact

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

9 Top Rated Capabilities

11 Top Rated Features

2023

Amazon EC2 Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+94 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Amazon EC2?

2% Negative

2% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Respectful
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Load Balancing

Cloud Integration

Capacity Management

Encryption and Decryption Support

Systems Performance Management

Access Management

Cloud Backup

Data Migration

Analytics and Reporting

Regulatory Compliance

SLA Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

Amazon EC2 Reviews

Arnaldo Ariel A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

All the power of the cloud

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

It is easy to use and manage.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The flexibilty to launch instances with only few clicks.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing to dislike.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Go ahead and use it.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Akalezi T.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

Easy to navigate the AWS console

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

Honestly, Ec2 and azure VMs literally means the same thing. No tangible difference between them.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I love the UI friendliness of AWS. The documentation couldn't be better, it's perfect.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing, it serves it's purpose.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

As long as you need access to virtual infrastructure and you don't want to worry about maintenance, AWS ec2 instances is the way to go.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Cons

Charges for Enhancements
Less Transparent

Raksha P.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Other
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

Reliable cloud infrastructure

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

Amazon EC2 differs from other products in a number of ways including its flexibility in offering various types of instances, OS, software packages, its scalability allowing us to scale up or down our capacity quickly, it's pay-as-you-go model offering affordable hourly costs. It easily integrated with other AWS services like RDS, SimpleDB, and SQS. It provides security to our business via using VPC to connect to the secured IT infrastructure to resources.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

As a developer, its scalability allows us to easily expand or reduce the infrastructure according to need. Its pay-as-you-go model helps us to reduce cost allocation and we can choose multiple pricing options like on demand, reserved instances, spot instances. We can integrate seamlessly with any of the other AWS services which help us to build and deploy complex applications.

What do you dislike most about this product?

While Amazon EC2 offers numerous benefits, such as scalability, cost efficiency, and reliability, it can also present challenges. It includes complexity of its pricing models, the steep learning curve for those new to cloud computing, and the potential vendor lock-in. Additionally, performance limitations due to shared resources and network latency, as well as the management overhead of patching, monitoring, and troubleshooting, are moreover reason to disappoint the service.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The recommendation for the products will be depend on the use cases. For example if one wants a overall good alternative they can use Microsoft Azure or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. If anyone needs top-notch security and AI Nsd machine learning services, then IBM will be the good choice.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Unique Features

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

Amazon EC2 Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+94 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Amazon EC2?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Load Balancing Allows distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources.

Cloud Integration Includes real-time data integration, APIs, and data quality.

Capacity Management Monitor system utilization and provide alerts when pre-defined thresholds are reached.

Encryption and Decryption Support Support for real-time decryption and re-encryption of information.

Systems Performance Management Includes monitoring, analyzing and configuration in order to optimize performance and increase efficiency.

Access Management Includes social sign-on, external authorization, and fraud detection.

Cloud Backup Includes backup schedules, encryption algorithms, and data support.

Data Migration The ability to select and extract data from one storage system to another

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Regulatory Compliance Includes compliance with regulations and standards such as SOX, HIPPA, NIST, PCI-DSS etc.

SLA Management Includes a contracted delivery time, automated escalations, and timely resolutions.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Amazon EC2 Reviews

Arnaldo Ariel A.

All the power of the cloud

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Akalezi T.

Easy to navigate the AWS console

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Raksha P.

Reliable cloud infrastructure

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Most Popular Amazon EC2 Comparisons

Google Cloud

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

DigitalOcean

IBM Cloud Bare Metal

Alibaba Cloud

Feature Ratings

Load Balancing

Cloud Integration

Capacity Management

Encryption and Decryption Support

Systems Performance Management

Access Management

Cloud Backup

Data Migration

Analytics and Reporting

Regulatory Compliance

SLA Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support