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
Mohd K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2023
Cost-Effectively Running Your Applications on Amaz
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 is a powerful and versatile IaaS product that offers a wide range of features and benefits. It is a good choice for a variety of workloads, including web applications, database servers, and big data processing.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of Amazon EC2 is its scalability. I like that I can easily add or remove capacity as needed, without having to worry about overprovisioning or underprovisioning. This makes it ideal for applications that experience fluctuating traffic or demand.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I think the biggest downside of Amazon EC2 is the complexity. There are a lot of different options and features to choose from, and it can be difficult to know which ones are right for you. This can be especially daunting for beginners.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The type of workload: The type of workload you are running will affect the type of instance type you need. For example, if you are running a web server, you will need an instance type with enough CPU and memory to handle the traffic. The amount of traffic: The amount of traffic your workload generates will also affect the type of instance type you need. If you expect a lot of traffic, you will need an instance type with a high throughput.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Or N.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2023
The best in the world
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
The best performance and cost. Very easy to use. Unlimited power at your fingertips
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
That it's exist
What do you dislike most about this product?
It can cost a lot if you are not careful but it's worth it
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Try the free tier and scale from there if you need
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Ahmet Hüseyin D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2023
Best for Back-end
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon is fast, secure and reliable, the computing power that EC2 instances generate for us is simply unmatched.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
All the three instances I have used through the years worked great so far.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I think this tool, although it somehow deserves, getting more and more expensive.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I'd recommend them yo try out Amazon AWS products in general and they have solution for almost everything.
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- Inspires Innovation
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
