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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 Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

Amazon EC2 Reviews

yavuz s.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Technology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Submitted Jul 2023

Best Machines for Backend Operations

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

Our business model requires as inbound traffic with VPN and outbound traffic with Nodes that’s why having a backbone such as EC2 machines is saving us a lot

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Thanks to our genius data engineers we can reduce server costs up to 35% per month thanks to efficient usage of EC2 GPUs

What do you dislike most about this product?

Although EC2 save us server costs this tool itself is getting more expensive now and then

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would definitely get Amazon EC2 trainings to get the most out of the tool, especially regarding the reduction of server costs

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Mike C.

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

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Submitted Jul 2023

Fast, Flexible & Reliable

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

Market leader that's very innovative.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Very flexible & easy to scale up or down.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Can be difficult to track what services are incurring costs.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Make sure to stay on top of your bill and audit services being used.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Includes Product Enhancements

Mehmet Emin O.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Food and Beverage
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

Saves us great

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

We're using EC2 machines to save a lot ot from data engineering and backend aspects.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

If a tool saves from your server cost up to 1000 USD annually, what's there not to like

What do you dislike most about this product?

Our GPU machines are working very fast, if Amazon provide more caring support it would be great

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would definitely recommend to get better deals from Amazon rather than Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Amazon EC2

What is Amazon EC2?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

yavuz s.

Best Machines for Backend Operations

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Mike C.

Fast, Flexible & Reliable

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Mehmet Emin O.

Saves us great

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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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 Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support