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
88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+92 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Security Protects
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Jash G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2021
BEST CLOUD SERVICE
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What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Aws provides many types of pricing like (I) Per Hour, (II) Free tier , (III) Free Trial Per Minute and in terms of security it provides the role based control features. this thing differentiates AWS from other similar products.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect is: Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 service this two services provides the best cloud storage and used for the better instances on few clicks to the developers.
What do you dislike most about this product?
My Dislike are: 1. User interface and layout of the panel 2. Sometimes the developer gets confused which type of service they want to choose(Supportive Document).
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Please make the update on the User Interface and layout of panel & provide the proper documentation of all of the services, so that the developer can choose the right service.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Terry S.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2021
Great product for storing data in the cloud
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon Web Services is one of the most effective platform for cloud data storage I have used.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It has excellent tools that gives enough storage to store data in cloud of any size. It offers safety of data and guarantees secure storage of data for future reference.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I have not experienced any drawback from this platform.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I highly recommend this tool to any company for excellent data storage in the cloud.
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
- Inspires Innovation
Rajesh S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Insurance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2021
The only way to scale
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It is Market Leader and offers the broadest range of services and capabilities that we were looking at. Between Azure and AWS, we went with AWS because of long-term cost benifits.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
the breadth of services and ease of integration with on-prem
What do you dislike most about this product?
It's all great, no complains
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This is the only way to scale. The choice between Azure and AWS would mostly come down to how much it would cost. During our evaluation, we got a better deal from Amazon.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing