We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and AWS Batch based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Compute Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Amazon EC2 is highly scalable."
"EC2 has helped us to deploy various Microsoft applications efficiently. It has also facilitated our workstation operations."
"The scalability of Amazon EC2 is good. However, the stability can depend on what service I am using."
"The most valuable features of Amazon EC2 are ease of use and the services offered."
"The product helps us with scalability. We also need not have data centers."
"This is a user-friendly solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is autoscaling."
"We can easily integrate AWS container images into the product."
"There is one other feature in confirmation or call confirmation where you can have templates of what you want to do and just modify those to customize it to your needs. And these templates basically make it a lot easier for you to get started."
"AWS Batch's deployment was easy."
"AWS Batch manages the execution of computing workload, including job scheduling, provisioning, and scaling."
"The IP changes whenever we restart which is frustrating."
"Currently in the autoscaling process if we have multiple issues we are not able to connect some of the VPC through the SMS."
"Regarding availability, a noticeable improvement would be the possibility of more load balancing configurations and the deployment of more datacenters, mainly in Latin America."
"The monitoring part could be improved. When we're building and configuring things or doing database replication, EC2's monitoring could provide more information. It's hard to find the information I need in the graphs they provide."
"The product needs to improve its cost management."
"Pricing-wise, it is a bit high."
"Amazon EC2 could improve the console view. The ability to see the console view directly would be helpful, similar to what VMware has. Additionally, when the system is rebooting we are able to see a screenshot of the UI, but it would be a lot better if we could interact directly with the console level."
"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."
"AWS Batch needs to improve its documentation."
"The main drawback to using AWS Batch would be the cost. It will be more expensive in some cases than using an HPC. It's more amenable to cases where you have spot requirements."
"When we run a lot of batch jobs, the UI must show the history."
"The solution should include better and seamless integration with other AWS services, like Amazon S3 data storage and EC2 compute resources."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 3rd in Compute Service with 60 reviews while AWS Batch is ranked 4th in Compute Service with 4 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while AWS Batch is rated 9.0. 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 Batch writes "User-friendly, good customization and offers exceptional scalability, allowing users to run jobs ranging from 32 cores to over 2,000 cores". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Fargate, Apache Spark, AWS Lambda and Apache NiFi, whereas AWS Batch is most compared with AWS Lambda, Apache Spark, AWS Fargate, Oracle Compute Cloud Service and Apache NiFi. See our AWS Batch vs. Amazon EC2 report.
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