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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+94 Net Emotional Footprint
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
Rahul K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Energy
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2024
Fantastic product!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 differentiates itself with its broad range of instance types, scalability, integration with AWS services, and global infrastructure. It offers flexibility in compute resources, extensive customization options, and seamless integration with a wide array of AWS tools and services.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
A standout aspect of Amazon EC2 is its scalability. The ability to easily scale compute resources up or down based on demand makes it highly flexible and efficient for various workloads.
What do you dislike most about this product?
One potential downside of Amazon EC2 is its complex pricing model, which can be difficult to navigate and predict, leading to unexpected costs if not managed carefully.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For Amazon EC2, understand the pricing, choose the right instance, use auto-scaling, explore AWS integrations, and implement strong security measures.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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Deepak P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2024
Unleashing Cloud Potential with Amazon EC2
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 provides great scalability and allow us to launch thousands of instances across various region.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Favorite aspect of Amazon EC2 is scalability and flexibility.
What do you dislike most about this product?
AI integration is still not while managing EC2 in Amazon dashboard.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Take advantage of free EC2 that Amazon provides and you can experiment with those before launching production level EC2.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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Himanshu V.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2024
Highly flexible and scalable, but complex pricing
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
In that direction, the most prominent of all is Amazon EC2 due to its highly scalable and flexible virtual server infrastructure that offers a wide variety in instance types by workload. Its seamless integration with AWS services will ensure pay-as-you-go pricing, global availability, high security, and extreme flexibility
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
What I like most about Amazon EC2 is that it is very scalable and flexible. It provides easy scaling of computing resources up or down according to demand, hence highly customizable and cost-effective for businesses of any size, whether it is a startup or an enterprise
What do you dislike most about this product?
The least I like about Amazon EC2 is, for sure, how it is priced. With many types of instances, storage, and additional services included, it is rather challenging for a user to correctly estimate costs and keep his or her spending optimized without thorough monitoring and analysis
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If someone is just starting to use Amazon EC2, here are things that I would recommend: 1. First, start with smaller instance types so the person can scale up as needed. 2. Make use of reserved or spot instances to reduce the cost. 3. Monitor usage closely through tools provided by AWS. 4. AWS Integration: Full value realization using AWS for integration.
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- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
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