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
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?
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Security Protects
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Banking
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2026
Scalable, reliable, highly customizable capacity
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
- Efficient Service
Aniket J.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2026
Best Cloud Provider For Startup & Devops Team
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It has great integration of open source project & devops tools, you can easily automate the task and other things
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Build automation for repetitive take is the favorite aspect of this product, easily integrate with different tools and on going architect
What do you dislike most about this product?
Its hard to integrate with on prem solution and active directory, user management of on prem get clutter.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Great cloud provider and one of leading in world, For startup and smbs it is best choice.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
Joanne A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Not for Profit
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2026
More affordable cloud solution and easy to deploy
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The software is easy to use and to deploy where I can easily assemble load balancers to distribute traffic across different VMs for better availability and is more secure with env variables that protect the files from exposing private keys even without the need to code or incur in technical knowledge
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like the ability of the tool to smoothly integrate with Windows-based environments which makes it easier for me to manage, troubleshoot, and ensure security. The centralised management console allows you to monitor everything in one place like the website traffic, and the application security from one dashboard
What do you dislike most about this product?
The cost of the solution is very expensive to use for smaller businesses and requires technical knowledge to deploy and even to compute it with the Mobile apps and web app, as well you need to have more knowledge to integrate database into the solution
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend the solution for ease of deployment
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
