We compared Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Both Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate offer valuable features such as scalability, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness, with positive feedback on customer service. However, EC2 is praised for its wide variety of instance types and integration options, while Fargate is commended for abstracting away infrastructure and efficient resource management.
Features: Amazon EC2 is praised for its scalability, flexibility, variety of instance types, reliable performance, global availability, customer support, and integration options. AWS Fargate stands out with its seamless scalability, ease of use, efficient resource management, abstraction of underlying infrastructure, server maintenance-free experience, high level of security and flexibility, and cost-effectiveness.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Amazon EC2 is considered straightforward and easy to understand, while AWS Fargate is praised for its ease of setup. Users have also mentioned the affordability and flexibility of the pricing plans offered by AWS Fargate., Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate both offer positive and beneficial ROIs. EC2 is commended for its cost-effectiveness, scalability, and flexibility, while Fargate is praised for its efficiency, scalability, and enhanced performance.
Room for Improvement: Amazon EC2 has room for improvement in enhancing the user interface, increasing instance availability and reducing launch time. Additionally, better pricing structures and integration with other AWS services are suggested. AWS Fargate, on the other hand, needs improvement in container orchestration, visibility and monitoring tools, resource allocation, networking limitations, and customer support.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews suggest that both Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate have varying durations for the deployment, setup, or implementation phases of a new tech solution. However, AWS Fargate seems to have a more significant variation in the required duration, with users reporting timelines ranging from three months for deployment and an additional week for setup, to just a week for both deployment and setup. This emphasizes that the duration for establishing a new tech solution using AWS Fargate can vary widely depending on individual circumstances., The customer service for Amazon EC2 is highly regarded and positively praised. AWS Fargate also receives positive comments, with prompt and efficient assistance and knowledgeable support demonstrated. Overall, customers seem satisfied with both products' customer service.
The summary above is based on 52 interviews we conducted recently with Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Its ease of use is valuable."
"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 most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 is the virtual machines that are available."
"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 would recommend this solution to others who want to start using it."
"The most valuable features of Amazon EC2 are ease of use and the services offered."
"The product is easy and quick to set up."
"EC2 has helped us to deploy various Microsoft applications efficiently. It has also facilitated our workstation operations."
"We appreciate the simple use of containers within this solution, it makes managing the containers quick and easy."
"AWS Fargate has many valuable services. It does the job with minimal trouble. It's very observable. You can see what's going on and you have logs. You have everything. You can troubleshoot it. It's affordable and it's flexible."
"If you create your deployment with a good set of rules for how to scale in, you can just set it and forget it."
"The most valuable feature of Fargate is that it's self-managed. You don't have to configure your own clusters or deploy any Kubernetes clusters. This simplifies the initial deployment and scaling process."
"I like their containerization service. You can use Docker or something similar and deploy quickly without the know-how related to, for example, Kubernetes. If you use AKS or Kubernetes, then you have to have the know-how. But for Fargate, you don't need to have the know-how there. You just deploy the container or the image, and then you have the container, and you can use it as AWS takes care of the rest. This makes it easier for those getting started or if you don't have a strong DevOps team inside your organization."
"Fargate itself is a stable product. We are quite satisfied with its performance."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Fargate is its ease of use."
"I would like to see as much automation for data validation as possible in the future."
"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."
"Amazon EC2 is very expensive, and it would be helpful if they decreased the pricing."
"Built-in and/or integration with other services to proactively identify potential failures before they occur."
"The monitoring part could be improved. When we're building and configuring things or doing database replication, EC2's monitoring could provide more information. It's hard to find the information I need in the graphs they provide."
"I think the pricing needs to be adjusted and better security."
"I would like to see more variety in the operating system images used to create test environments in EC2. There should be more versions and releases. Sometimes, you want to test an update from an old release to a higher version, but you can’t do that with the new images available. You have to use your own."
"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."
"If there are any options to manage containers, that would be good. That relates more to the cost point. For example, over the next three months, I'll be making a comparison between solutions like CAST AI and other software-as-a-service platforms that offer Kubernetes management with an emphasis on cost reduction."
"AWS Fargate could improve the privileged mode containers. We had some problems and they were not able to run."
"I heard from my team that it's not easy to predict the cost. That is the only issue we have with AWS Fargate, but I think that's acceptable. AWS Fargate isn't user-friendly. Anything related to Software as a Service or microservice architecture is not easy to implement. You're required to have DevOps from your side to implement the solution. AWS Fargate is just a temporary solution for us. When we grow to a certain level, we may use AKS for better control."
"I would like to see the older dashboard instead of the newer version. I don't like the new dashboard."
"The main area for improvement is the cost, which could be lowered to be more competitive with other major cloud providers."
"We faced challenges in vertically scaling our workload."
"We would like to see some improvement in the process documents that are provided with this product, particularly for auto-scaling and other configuration tools that are a bit complicated."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 3rd in Compute Service with 60 reviews while AWS Fargate is ranked 6th in Compute Service with 7 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while AWS Fargate is rated 8.8. 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 Fargate writes "Offers serverless capabilities, self-managed, simplifies ease of use and integrates with other AWS services". Amazon EC2 is most compared with Apache Spark, AWS Lambda, AWS Batch, Apache NiFi and Google App Engine, whereas AWS Fargate is most compared with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, AWS Lambda, AWS Batch, Oracle Compute Cloud Service and Apache Spark. See our AWS Fargate vs. Amazon EC2 report.
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