Amazon EC2
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
89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+91 Net Emotional Footprint
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Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Security Protects
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
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Amazon EC2 Reviews

Charan Teja O.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2023
Best compute offering from public cloud in market
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Less time to provision, high availability, easy of use are few of the factors that differentiates
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
ease of navigation between tabs, service offering latest technology changes are the favorites. Also, the AWS support is really good, available for assistance at any point of time for a P1 issue.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There is nothing I dislike about EC2
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
AWS offers free tier for 1year, If you're considering, start with free tier and get familiar with the services.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
anglina c.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Biotechnology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2023
Amazon EC2 is an incredible tool.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 is a good software system for the remote instances of any operating system. We can have a good range of operating systems to go live with. AWS EC2 is the pay-as-you-go model; you’ll get to pay the amount just for resources used.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
AWS offers simply accessible, reasonable cloud storage choices for businesses that may be accessed from any place in the world. You’ll get on-demand cloud services and their pay-as-you-go pricing that is affordable and best for businesses. You’ll quickly move your applications to the cloud quickly and easily by using simply a few clicks. Additionally, it offers specialized information applications with the correct tools already included. It’s essential for any business, startup, or corporation, in my opinion.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Generally, AWS EC2 network interface gets disconnected automatically, so we lose access to our instance, and we’ll have to reboot the instance manually. Another disadvantage is that we even have to pay the amount for the stopped instances.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The best factor I prefer regarding Amazon Ec2 is the handiness of functions and tools and how simple to use everything is. Like if I’m using Ec2, I don’t have to be compelled to use any third-party tool for literally anything. Whether it’s load balancing, elastic IP or auto-scaling, and so on Amazon Ec2 got everything.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity

Estefania L.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2023
High-performance, stable web storage
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
As storage, it is secure and economical, or it can handle processing that requires high performance, and careful selection and configuration is possible. It is an essential function that forms the core of the cloud along with EC2. The price and performance automatically change according to the access frequency so that it can choose content and variety according to the user. including starting and stopping service usage, almost no costs were wasted in development and operation.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Alternatively, to the existing file server, you can transfer and operate many material data files to the cloud side. High security and file transfer performance make file uploading and downloading very easy. Access is easy. You can connect to the S3 server with the issued API key and control file uploading from the program. You can also log into the WEB console and check the uploaded files on the browser. Rich libraries and SDKs are provided for multiple languages such as Java, PHP, Perl and GO, making it ideal for project development work. We can build and operate reliable web applications.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The data is stored using the AWS server to reduce the database capacity on site. I am relieved that, usually, the operation runs smoothly. Still, in an emergency, when the AWS server or network is congested or fails, I cannot load data, and I am worried that the operation will stop. It would be beneficial if there were some temporary emergency mechanisms on the AWS server side to prepare for that time.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
From what kind of service should be configured for the cloud, by considering the contents of the introduction, you can organize the required specifications for storage and judge whether the AWS service is helpful. I am sure you will get the performance you expect. Specifically, the local server service was first reconfigured using Docker, etc., the application part was operated on EC2, and the storage part was operated via containers using S3. We created a mechanism to synchronize and compare internal data in a reasonably short period. Since the user can easily control S3 (and EC2),
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy