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"The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 is the virtual machines that are available.""The serverless architecture solutions are most valuable, and the ability to start with little cost, and then expand as needed.""The initial setup is straightforward.""Amazon EC2 is really reliable and provides great flexibility.""I believe that cloud solutions are better than physical servers.""EC2 has helped us to deploy various Microsoft applications efficiently. It has also facilitated our workstation operations.""The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 is the computing capacity.""The flexibility of the security features is what is interesting."

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"There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services.""The most valuable feature for us is the support, which is really efficient.""Image backup is a valuable feature. Even though this is a common feature, it is very helpful for us."

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"Nothing is really missing in terms of features.""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.""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.""The support could be more responsive.""Lacks sufficient tools to help users minimize their costs.""The IP changes whenever we restart which is frustrating.""EC2 could be improved with easier migration.""The initial setup could be easier because many keys are required for access."

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"It doesn't offer Elastic IP like AWS. And also we can't configure our server based on region.""It would be nice to have more built-in suites compared to others. It would enable easier integration."

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  • "Pricing appears to be cheap, however, it is extremely difficult in calculating what something will cost."
  • "It has helped to reduce costs with infrastructure."
  • "EC2 pricing is somewhat transparent, in that AWS provides pricing for all instance types. However, the number of pricing options can be confusing."
  • "For our usage, the cost is approximately $20,000 to $23,000 per month."
  • "There is a license required to use this solution and we pay on a monthly basis."
  • "The price is reasonable, but there is definitely an opportunity to lower it in instances which are of a higher configuration, because they have been typically used for the long term."
  • "Amazon EC2 has a pay-as-you-use cost model."
  • "The clients have found the billing of Amazon EC2 good, but the price could be less high. There is a monthly subscription to use the solution."
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  • "The service includes licenses (for operating systems, databases, etc.). Asset management is easier with services like that."
  • "Comparatively, this solution is a bit expensive."
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    Top Answer:Amazon EC2 is really reliable and provides great flexibility.
    Top Answer:The solution has different pricing models, and its cost differs when you purchase it for one year or three years.
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    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2
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    Overview

    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.

    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.

    Rackspace is a listed company that specializes in hybrid cloud environments to support your applications and sites. The environments are based on its open-source operating system OpenStack.Rackspace Cloud caters for the private cloud, public cloud, dedicated servers, or a hybrid of platforms.

    Your Rackspace Cloud environment is customizable according to your cloud requirements, and all products work together seamlessly from one portal.

    Sample Customers
    Netflix, Expedia, TimeInc., Novaris, airbnb, Lamborghini
    3D Capacity, Acquity Group, Axios Systems, Behance, Blastro, Dominos Pizza, and Sage.
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    Computer Software Company32%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    Government8%
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    Computer Software Company18%
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    Small Business45%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise38%
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    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Amazon EC2 is ranked 3rd in Compute Service with 56 reviews while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Compute Service. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon EC2 writes "Highly stable, is auto-scaling, and can be utilized in under five minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rackspace Cloud [EOL] writes "There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, Apache Spark, Apache NiFi and AWS Batch, whereas Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is most compared with .

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