We compared Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Both Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate offer valuable features such as scalability, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness, with positive feedback on customer service. However, EC2 is praised for its wide variety of instance types and integration options, while Fargate is commended for abstracting away infrastructure and efficient resource management.
Features: Amazon EC2 is praised for its scalability, flexibility, variety of instance types, reliable performance, global availability, customer support, and integration options. AWS Fargate stands out with its seamless scalability, ease of use, efficient resource management, abstraction of underlying infrastructure, server maintenance-free experience, high level of security and flexibility, and cost-effectiveness.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Amazon EC2 is considered straightforward and easy to understand, while AWS Fargate is praised for its ease of setup. Users have also mentioned the affordability and flexibility of the pricing plans offered by AWS Fargate., Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate both offer positive and beneficial ROIs. EC2 is commended for its cost-effectiveness, scalability, and flexibility, while Fargate is praised for its efficiency, scalability, and enhanced performance.
Room for Improvement: Amazon EC2 has room for improvement in enhancing the user interface, increasing instance availability and reducing launch time. Additionally, better pricing structures and integration with other AWS services are suggested. AWS Fargate, on the other hand, needs improvement in container orchestration, visibility and monitoring tools, resource allocation, networking limitations, and customer support.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews suggest that both Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate have varying durations for the deployment, setup, or implementation phases of a new tech solution. However, AWS Fargate seems to have a more significant variation in the required duration, with users reporting timelines ranging from three months for deployment and an additional week for setup, to just a week for both deployment and setup. This emphasizes that the duration for establishing a new tech solution using AWS Fargate can vary widely depending on individual circumstances., The customer service for Amazon EC2 is highly regarded and positively praised. AWS Fargate also receives positive comments, with prompt and efficient assistance and knowledgeable support demonstrated. Overall, customers seem satisfied with both products' customer service.
The summary above is based on 52 interviews we conducted recently with Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"I like the AMI-related features. A very good feature of this solution is the customizable AMI. It is a very good feature provided by Amazon. The encryption technologies are also very good. We are using KMS, etc."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The ethernet configuration is stable and the product is reliable."
"The product is very mature and organized."
"We find it easy to scale."
"We don't have to worry about scalability issues or maintenance or security. It's all taken care of."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 is the virtual machines that are available."
"The ability to quickly spin up instances on demand with zero upfront costs or infrastructure is the most valuable for me."
"I like their containerization service. You can use Docker or something similar and deploy quickly without the know-how related to, for example, Kubernetes. If you use AKS or Kubernetes, then you have to have the know-how. But for Fargate, you don't need to have the know-how there. You just deploy the container or the image, and then you have the container, and you can use it as AWS takes care of the rest. This makes it easier for those getting started or if you don't have a strong DevOps team inside your organization."
"If you create your deployment with a good set of rules for how to scale in, you can just set it and forget it."
"We appreciate the simple use of containers within this solution, it makes managing the containers quick and easy."
"AWS Fargate is an easy-to-use tool to simplify setup. You only pay for the resources you use. If you need to quickly create, delete, or scale applications without managing resources like EC2 instances, Fargate is the best service to use."
"The most valuable feature of Fargate is that it's self-managed. You don't have to configure your own clusters or deploy any Kubernetes clusters. This simplifies the initial deployment and scaling process."
"Fargate itself is a stable product. We are quite satisfied with its performance."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Fargate is its ease of use."
"AWS Fargate has many valuable services. It does the job with minimal trouble. It's very observable. You can see what's going on and you have logs. You have everything. You can troubleshoot it. It's affordable and it's flexible."
"We're expecting to have Graviton instances. Graviton means it's not internal, it's a low-cost instance. At present time, Graviton is not supported for a few packages."
"Its price can be reduced."
"The product needs to improve its cost management."
"Support doesn't share or give insights on OS-based issues. That needs to improve because if someone is buying an EC2 instance with the Windows server and SQL license, the client expects that there will be a minimum level of support."
"I would like to see more variety in the operating system images used to create test environments in EC2. There should be more versions and releases. Sometimes, you want to test an update from an old release to a higher version, but you can’t do that with the new images available. You have to use your own."
"I would like to see improvement in the information available up-front for users around tailoring the package to their actual requirements. At present it can take time to work with the on demand instance until you are used to what features are right for the user."
"It is a little too expensive."
"The support could be more responsive."
"The main area for improvement is the cost, which could be lowered to be more competitive with other major cloud providers."
"We faced challenges in vertically scaling our workload."
"If there are any options to manage containers, that would be good. That relates more to the cost point. For example, over the next three months, I'll be making a comparison between solutions like CAST AI and other software-as-a-service platforms that offer Kubernetes management with an emphasis on cost reduction."
"I would like to see the older dashboard instead of the newer version. I don't like the new dashboard."
"AWS Fargate could improve the privileged mode containers. We had some problems and they were not able to run."
"I heard from my team that it's not easy to predict the cost. That is the only issue we have with AWS Fargate, but I think that's acceptable. AWS Fargate isn't user-friendly. Anything related to Software as a Service or microservice architecture is not easy to implement. You're required to have DevOps from your side to implement the solution. AWS Fargate is just a temporary solution for us. When we grow to a certain level, we may use AKS for better control."
"We would like to see some improvement in the process documents that are provided with this product, particularly for auto-scaling and other configuration tools that are a bit complicated."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 3rd in Compute Service with 60 reviews while AWS Fargate is ranked 6th in Compute Service with 8 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while AWS Fargate is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon EC2 writes "Easy to scale and valuable features include the security group and key management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Fargate writes "Offers serverless capabilities, self-managed, simplifies ease of use and integrates with other AWS services". Amazon EC2 is most compared with Apache Spark, AWS Lambda, AWS Batch and Apache NiFi, whereas AWS Fargate is most compared with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, AWS Batch, AWS Lambda, Oracle Compute Cloud Service and Apache Spark. See our AWS Fargate vs. Amazon EC2 report.
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