Amazon EC2 Reviews

Name: Amazon EC2
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (56 reviews)

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.

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Amazon EC2 is the #4 ranked solution in top Compute Service solutions. PeerSpot users give Amazon EC2 an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Amazon EC2 is most commonly compared to Apache Spark: Amazon EC2 vs Apache Spark. Amazon EC2 is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 67% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 20% of all views.

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Alex Kabugo

System Engineer at Wipro Limited

Aug 21, 2023

EC2 is one of the most important AWS services to consider. Its vastness and scalability are exceptional. They are quite impressive EC2 has helped us to deploy various Microsoft applications efficiently. It has also facilitated our workstation operations. It serves as one of the primary servers…

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Harvinder Singh Bhogal

Principal Architect at Visionet Systems Inc.

Apr 19, 2023

We use Amazon EC2 for hosting our web fleet in autoscaling mode The time to Live is minimal. I can quickly create a VM instance with just one click. I can reduce costs by using fewer instances with a lower workload. In the event of a sudden spike in demand, Amazon EC2 auto-scales, allowing me to…

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Liu, Scott Wen

Delivery Manager at Deloitte

Jan 27, 2023

I use this solution to allow me to use work via a cloud computing platform. This means I can access search information and features, such as Google Talk, that I would not normally be able to use My favorite feature of this solution is the flexibility of instance types, which allows for the cost…

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Amazon EC2 market share

As of March 2024, the market share of Amazon EC2 in the Compute Service category stands at 8.5%, marking an increase of 25.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"Amazon EC2 is really reliable and provides great flexibility."
"The product is very mature and organized."
"EC2 has helped us to deploy various Microsoft applications efficiently. It has also facilitated our workstation operations."

Room for Improvement

"The solution’s pricing and downtimes could be improved."
"The GUI used to deploy EC2 must be improved."
"There should be enhanced accessibility from any standpoint. The accessibility should be increased, particularly in scenarios where accessing the software on the Azure platform from the cloud can be complex. Simplifying this process would be beneficial. There are too many steps involved."

Pricing

"The solution has different pricing models, and its cost differs when you purchase it for one year or three years."
"It is not an expensive solution."
"Amazon EC2 is a very expensive solution."

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Learn more about Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate them from common failure scenarios.

Amazon EC2 was previously known as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2.