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
Ahmed Faruk D.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2023
Fastest Tool Ever
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
I have never seen a computing power of Amazon EC2 GPU Machines in other vendors.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I really like the responsiveness from support team.
What do you dislike most about this product?
This tool is getting very expensive lately.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommend them to have this tool with free credits first and initiate a deep dive for due diligence.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
- Efficient Service
Aditya Y.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Dec 2023
Highly Scalable and Easy to use like RHEL
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It was come with installed and already configured Yum, Really when we launch ec2 instance that was very less latency , when we configure web server with Amazon ec2 i saw very less latency and comes with less cache space taking really a good and efficient
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I launch multiple machine in multiple cloud but when we launch a ec2 instance it was easy to launch with only just one click with existing security , and comes with configured Package manager.
What do you dislike most about this product?
As per cost sometimes it was very high when we have multiple vm but we got vendor support for that also , and really aws is very good when we provision any instance or any environment.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I Highly recommended if you go with AWS, really you will be happy as per vendor support, as well as their fabulous security.
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- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Rajesh N.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2023
Best Cloud in many regions
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What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It provides user to create servers in the 23 regions in fraction of seconds which is so faster than other cloud platforms
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Previously it have taken minimum 40 to 50 days to create server and which is so costly to maintain but now we can create instances in less than 1 minute and in the whole world which is so cost efficient.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It even charges for the new beginners as they don't have complete knowledge on the aws if they do any mistake it may leads to high pricing for new user.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This is the best cloud platform and ec2 is the best instance in the current market but before choosing it discuss about the requirements that you need and pricing in aws.
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- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service