We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda 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."The ability to quickly spin up instances on demand with zero upfront costs or infrastructure is the most valuable for me."
"This is a user-friendly solution."
"I can quickly create a VM instance with just one click."
"Its ease of use is valuable."
"The most valuable features of Amazon EC2 are ease of use and the services offered."
"EC2 has the typical advantages of using the cloud. It's easy to provision and set up."
"Amazon EC2 has plenty of scalability options to decrease or increase the number we need. Based on our bandwidth usage we may go for a higher or downgrade level. We can do it ourselves."
"The ability to bring up servers and then do the computation and deposit means we don't have to maintain a data center. Everything is virtual and the security is also taken care of. It helps us to achieve compliance. Being a small startup with the security features that AWS provides helps us with compliance."
"The utilization of containers is particularly beneficial in overcoming the size limitations imposed on Lambda functions which not only allows us to work around these constraints but also contributes to the improvement and maintenance of our code."
"It's also suitable for companies of any size. For example, we're a large enterprise, and we've used Lambda without any problems in the last 10 months."
"The main features of this solution are the ability to integrate multiple AWS applications or external applications very quickly and organize all of them. Additionally, it is easy to use and you can run various programming languages, such as Python, Go, and Java."
"Lambda is the preferred compute option because of on-demand cost. We don't have to provision any hardware beforehand. We don't have to provision the capacity required for the services because it is serverless."
"I like the pay-for-what-you-use feature. This is the main reason why we use AWS Lambda. I don't have to manage servers; I just have to configure Lambda and expose it to an API gateway."
"The stability is good."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The programming language and the integration with other AWS services are the most valuable features."
"In terms of improvement, they could build some client-side desktop tools that provide easier connectivity to Amazon."
"The GUI used to deploy EC2 must be improved."
"The solution is pretty expensive."
"Amazon EC2 could improve by reducing the price."
"Amazon EC2 could improve by having integration with other cloud systems, such as Azure, and Google Cloud which would be good. Additionally, having integration with on-premise systems would be appreciated."
"Regional acceleration could improve. If I am hosting a website and I want the experience to be faster they should have this feature to allow for increased speeds."
"Lacks sufficient tools to help users minimize their costs."
"Current inability to change the resource service levels."
"The solution should continue to streamline integrations with AWS services."
"AWS Lambda could be improved by increasing the size of the payload. Also, sometimes Lambda doesn't implement well for bigger solutions."
"The first time Lambda is started up, it takes some time to spin up an instance for serving the consumer requests. AWS has been trying to solve this in a variety of ways but have not yet managed to do so."
"I would like to see the five zero four AWS Lambda invocation fixed. This is basically a time-out error."
"AWS Lambda can improve its file system-based sharing capabilities and restrictions."
"There's room for improvement in the testing setup."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. We would also like to have better integration with other AWS features."
"My opinion is that the integration could be improved in this solution. We have had some difficulties integrating the EC2 module, but we found a solution for that by ourselves."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 4th in Compute Service with 56 reviews while AWS Lambda is ranked 1st in Compute Service with 70 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while AWS Lambda 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 Lambda writes "An easily scalable solution with a variety of use cases and valuable event-based triggers". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Fargate, Apache Spark, Apache NiFi, AWS Batch and Google App Engine, whereas AWS Lambda is most compared with AWS Batch, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Apache NiFi, Apache Spark and Azure Stream Analytics. See our AWS Lambda vs. Amazon EC2 report.
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