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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Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Enables Productivity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Indrajeet S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2024
scallable on demand and easy to use
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Its really easy to setup and configure, you can change instance type on the go without much effort. Very secure as one needs .pem file to access it or console access at least.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Scalability and integration with other applications from AWS ecosystem like lambda, s3 and more are my favourite aspects plus we can increase EBS volume attached to instance on the go without much hassle
What do you dislike most about this product?
The AWS ec2 console can be a little difficult to navigate for first time users as there are many options, aws ec2 can give a small chatbot on the screen introducing all the feature and configurations
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
not much AWS has done a great job with ec2, they can add a small chatbot dialog directly taking users to necessary documentations that will be helpful
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Effective Service
Yashovardhan J.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2024
Flexible Cloud with Easy Budget
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Unlike other cloud services, Amazon EC2 offers a huge variety of virtual server options with different processing power, storage, and operating systems. You only pay for what you use, making it very cost-effective.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The ability to easily scale your computing power up or down depending on your needs is fantastic.
What do you dislike most about this product?
EC2 can have a bit of a learning curve, especially for beginners.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For businesses or individuals who need flexible and scalable computing power, Amazon EC2 is a great choice. However, some technical expertise is recommended.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Inspires Innovation
CALVIN K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2024
Easy to use. Lots of Dev support
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
its ease of use and many devs have interacted with it prior
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
How there are so many online resources
What do you dislike most about this product?
how slow the whole console gets when you have so many services running on AWS in a single region
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
try it out and test it against other cloud providers
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Effective Service
- Saves Time
