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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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Enables Productivity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Charanjeet S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2023
Mostly Secure Hosting Solution
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
AWS EC2 provides the features of cloud management at single dashboard. This is a single stop shop for everything like hosting, domain, backups, lambda, ec2, s3 for storage etc. There is a long list of features of Amazon ec2
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Amazon EC2 provides the best hosting solution to manage multiple instances their snapshots cum backups, hard drives/volumes, elastic IPs related to instances and many other security features required to deploy a server online
What do you dislike most about this product?
While using the Amazon EC2 instances from a long time I didn't found any drawback. Services and support teams are very helpful in the times of problems.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I will highly recommend this to deploy any type of website online. They also provide 1 year free trial to test the services. They are the best service provider with full security of the servers
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2023
Initial Cloud Compute for the overall purpose
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Rasanpreet s.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2023
on-demand Compute Cloud product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It offers a cloud computing capability that is scalable. The main goal is to simplify web-scale computing for developers.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It makes it simple for users to build and start virtual servers in the cloud. It is compatible with many different operating systems and applications.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Server outages do occur sometimes for users. It can be due to a power outage or poor cloud provider network connectivity.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you wish to investigate cloud computing possibilities on the cloud, this software is excellent. After gaining a thorough grasp of its characteristics, you must utilize them to achieve your company objectives.
Pros
- Reliable
- Security Protects
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
