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 Key Management Service (KMS) feature is very helpful for security. It encrypts the data that is being saved. Cloud storage is also very helpful, and it could be AWS S3, which a lot of people use."
"The tool's performance, reliability, security and flexibility are good. We can use it remotely. The autoscaling functionality of EC2 is quite good. I appreciate the DevOps suite for tracking development tasks. This functionality is important for pure software development."
"I like the AMI-related features. A very good feature of this solution is the customizable AMI. It is a very good feature provided by Amazon. The encryption technologies are also very good. We are using KMS, etc."
"The scalability of Amazon EC2 is good. However, the stability can depend on what service I am using."
"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."
"I believe that cloud solutions are better than physical servers."
"The ability to quickly spin up instances on demand with zero upfront costs or infrastructure is the most valuable for me."
"I like EC2 because of its simple workload and the ability to configure VPCs and security groups."
"It's a fairly easy solution to learn."
"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."
"You can spin up anything instantly without any investment."
"This product is easy to use."
"One of the most valuable features of AWS Lambda is the performance. Lambda is very technical and has very high performance, as well as good real-time performance."
"AWS Lambda's most valuable feature is serverless architecture."
"The ability to scale up and down very quickly helps because we can maintain our system performance and business at a low cost."
"The basic feature that I like is that there is no server installation. It also has good support for various languages, such as Java, .NET, C#, and Python."
"EC2 could be improved with easier migration."
"They should fix the key pair name functionality and provide the ability to assign multiple key pair names to an EC2 instance. It is a key pair feature, and it provides you the ability to actually log into the server. It is basically like a password. In terms of new features, it should have the ability to increase and decrease the instance size based on certain times of the day. We should be able to do this without turning off the EC2 instance. Currently, you have to turn it off and then turn it back on. It should also have HTTPS or SSL integration."
"It's not the best of the best because we still have issues with downtime. We still have issues with the cost of storage, with all these different instance styles, and how much it costs. They cost an arm and a leg the higher you go."
"Amazon EC2 could improve by reducing the price."
"The support could be more responsive."
"My impression is that the scalability of this product could be improved. My opinion is that, for example, the Lambda solution is much more scalable than EC2."
"It is a little too expensive."
"An area for improvement in Amazon EC2 is the cost because it's a bit higher than competitor pricing."
"The metrics and reporting for this solution could be improved."
"The product needs some updating as far as ease-of-customization and configuration opportunities to work with solutions outside of the cloud."
"We don't have the inbuilt modules in AWS Lambda. If more modules were built into or integrated with AWS Lambda, that would help developers to code."
"The running time of AWS Lambda runs fine. It takes around five minutes but it would be great if that time could be extended."
"There were some timeout issues with AWS Lambda as the options provided didn't suit our business cases."
"Its performance can be improved. There should also be more dynamic security permissions."
"Amazon doesn't have enough local support based in our country."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 3rd in Compute Service with 60 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, AWS Batch, Apache NiFi 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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