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
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- Enables Productivity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Andrew N.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Gaming and Hospitality
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2023
Scalable and flexible cloud computing service
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Provides the ability to create Auto Scaling Groups, which are groups of server instances that automatically adjust to handle variations in workload. You can configure Auto Scaling to automatically add or remove server instances in response to user demand. This helps ensure that your game servers are always available and can handle the workload, even during times of high demand.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Scalability is an essential feature for any online game, as user demand can vary greatly at different times of the day or at different times of the year. With Amazon EC2, you can quickly and easily scale your gaming infrastructure to meet user demand. You can add or remove server instances as needed, allowing you to adjust the capacity of your infrastructure in real-time. Additionally, Amazon EC2 offers several scalability options to suit your specific needs.
What do you dislike most about this product?
In terms of costs, high availability on Amazon EC2 can incur additional costs. Although Amazon EC2 offers multiple availability zones and load-balancing options to ensure high availability, these services may incur additional costs. For example, when using multiple Availability Zones to ensure the continuous availability of your game servers, you will need to pay for the use of server instances in each of those zones. In addition, the use of load balancing options can also generate additional costs for the use of network resources and the implementation of additional services for load distribution.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Carefully plan your application architecture. Before deploying your game servers on Amazon EC2, it's important to carefully plan your application architecture. Consider factors such as server size, expected traffic, and high availability to ensure an efficient and cost-effective implementation.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Effective Service
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Charan Teja O.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2023
Best compute offering from public cloud in market
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Less time to provision, high availability, easy of use are few of the factors that differentiates
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
ease of navigation between tabs, service offering latest technology changes are the favorites. Also, the AWS support is really good, available for assistance at any point of time for a P1 issue.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There is nothing I dislike about EC2
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
AWS offers free tier for 1year, If you're considering, start with free tier and get familiar with the services.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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anglina c.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Biotechnology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2023
Amazon EC2 is an incredible tool.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 is a good software system for the remote instances of any operating system. We can have a good range of operating systems to go live with. AWS EC2 is the pay-as-you-go model; you’ll get to pay the amount just for resources used.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
AWS offers simply accessible, reasonable cloud storage choices for businesses that may be accessed from any place in the world. You’ll get on-demand cloud services and their pay-as-you-go pricing that is affordable and best for businesses. You’ll quickly move your applications to the cloud quickly and easily by using simply a few clicks. Additionally, it offers specialized information applications with the correct tools already included. It’s essential for any business, startup, or corporation, in my opinion.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Generally, AWS EC2 network interface gets disconnected automatically, so we lose access to our instance, and we’ll have to reboot the instance manually. Another disadvantage is that we even have to pay the amount for the stopped instances.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The best factor I prefer regarding Amazon Ec2 is the handiness of functions and tools and how simple to use everything is. Like if I’m using Ec2, I don’t have to be compelled to use any third-party tool for literally anything. Whether it’s load balancing, elastic IP or auto-scaling, and so on Amazon Ec2 got everything.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
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