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
99 Plan to Renew
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87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+94 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Security Protects
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2024
Innovative yet handy and easy to understand
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
uday t.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2024
Easy to launch
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Faster secure and easy to integrate it with emr and rds handles load by using load balancing efficiently scales up and down using auto scaling
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Easy to use and secure
What do you dislike most about this product?
Takes time to understand about the integration
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Default port numbers should be set in security groups so that it would be eash yo launch using putty or ssh
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Jaimin M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2026
Reliable scalable infrastructure that we trust
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Honestly, the instance variety is what got me. When we were evaluating options a couple years back, nothing else gave us that level of control over what we were actually running. You can pick exactly the CPU/memory ratio you need instead of just grabbing whatever's closest. The integration with the rest of AWS is also hard to ignore — once your networking, monitoring, and IAM are all in the same place, switching feels like a step backward.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Auto Scaling has saved us more than once. We had a product launch last year where traffic spiked way beyond what we planned for—EC2 just handled it. I didn't get a call at 2am, which honestly is the best thing I can say about any infrastructure tool. The reliability has been consistently good over the years we've used it.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The pricing options are a mess to figure out at first. Reserved instances, savings plans, and spot—it took us a while to understand what we were actually paying for and why. We got hit with a bigger bill than expected in the first couple months. Not a dealbreaker but definitely something to be aware of going in. AWS could do a better job explaining this upfront.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Set up billing alerts on day one, seriously. Don't wait until the end of the month. Also, don't just default to the same instance type every time—spend an afternoon looking at what fits your workload; it's worth it. If you're coming from on-prem, the learning curve is real, but it flattens out pretty quickly once your team gets hands-on time with it.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
