We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Cloud [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon, Apache, Zadara and others in Compute Service."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."
"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."
"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."
"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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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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