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."Stable, scalable, and simple to implement."
"The most valuable features of Amazon EC2 are ease of use and the services offered."
"Amazon EC2's most valuable feature I have heard from clients is easy provisioning. Provisioning is very quick and easy."
"I like EC2 because of its simple workload and the ability to configure VPCs and security groups."
"The product helps us with scalability. We also need not have data centers."
"The greatest benefit of Amazon EC2 is its versatility, including the diverse range of servers available and the ability to connect to various resources."
"The scalability of Amazon EC2 is good. However, the stability can depend on what service I am using."
"There's a lot of encryption across the setups to ensure that database credentials and everything related to security are well managed."
"This product is easy to use."
"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 programming language and the integration with other AWS services are the most valuable features."
"AWS Lambda is itself serverless, and it is connected to the API gateway, and you can directly call the API through the API gateway and connect through AWS Lambda."
"AWS Lambda is serverless."
"Thanks to this solution, we do not need to worry about hardware or resource utilization. It saves us time."
"The solution integrates well with API gateways and S3 events via its AWS ecosystem."
"It's a serverless solution which is the best feature. It helps us because it offers free aspects. From the infrastructure perspective, it helps us manage costs. There is no overhead of estimating how much infrastructure we're going to need. We can focus on building the business functionality that we want to build."
"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."
"One of the challenges is the AMI upgrades."
"Pricing-wise, it is a bit high."
"Amazon EC2's pricing could be better."
"The tool’s stability could be better."
"I would like to see improvement in the information available up-front for users around tailoring the package to their actual requirements. At present it can take time to work with the on demand instance until you are used to what features are right for the user."
"The ease of migrating applications could be improved."
"I think the whole AWS stack is very disconnected from each other. in the .NET space, everything just works nicely together. In the AWS stack, there is a lot of head scratching."
"I want to see support for longer applications. I need the 15-minute time-out window to improve."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. We would also like to have better integration with other AWS features."
"There are sometimes issues following an update."
"The feature to attach external storage, such as an S3 or elastic storage, must be added to AWS Lambda. This is its area for improvement."
"I would like the layers to have a bigger volume. I would like to be able to add more. I don't want to be limited by the layer."
"The product could make the process of integration easier."
"Lambda can only be used in one account; there's no possibility to utilize it in another account."
"The security needs to be improved."
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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