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."
"Configuration can be changed at any time and it's very scalable."
"What we have found most valuable is that we have not lost stability in the program."
"The scalability of the solution is fantastic. It's one of our favorite features."
"We find it easy to scale."
"We don't have to worry about scalability issues or maintenance or security. It's all taken care of."
"The product is very mature and organized."
"I like EC2 because of its simple workload and the ability to configure VPCs and security groups."
"AWS Lambda's best features are log analysis and event triggering and actioning."
"Lambda is the preferred compute option because of on-demand cost. We don't have to provision any hardware beforehand. We don't have to provision the capacity required for the services because it is serverless."
"The tool scales automatically based on the number of incoming requests."
"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."
"The programming language and the integration with other AWS services are the most valuable features."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The most valuable feature is that it scans the cloud system and if they are any security anomalies it triggers an email."
"It enables the launch of thousands of instances simultaneously,"
"The initial deployment was complex."
"We faced a challenge in regard to billing. It took a lot of time because our state is set up in Kenya, so we needed to pay in Kenya currency. We have to go around in circles."
"The tool’s stability could be better."
"The customization could be simplified."
"Amazon EC2 could improve by reducing the price."
"Technical itself could be a bit more helpful, especially when it comes to integration assistance. When we talk to the technical team, often it's some issue with integration and they'll tell us to talk to the other company. Often, the other company will look at everything and not see an issue from their end and then we are at an impasse."
"The scalability could improve."
"Amazon EC2 is very expensive, and it would be helpful if they decreased the pricing."
"What could be improved in AWS Lambda is a tricky question because I base the area for improvement on a specific matrix, for example, latency, so I'm still determining if I can be the judge on that. However, room for improvement could be when you're using AWS Lambda as a backend, it can be challenging to use it for monitoring. Monitoring is critical in development, and I don't have much expertise in the area, but you can use other services such as Xray. I found that monitoring on AWS Lambda is a challenge. The tool needs better monitoring. Another area for improvement in AWS Lambda is the cold start, where it takes some time to invoke a function the first time, but after that, invoking it becomes swift. Still, there's room for improvement in that AWS Lambda process. In the next release of AWS Lambda, I'd like AWS to improve monitoring so that I can monitor codes better."
"They should work on the solution's stability and pricing."
"Lambda can only be used in one account; there's no possibility to utilize it in another account."
"There were some timeout issues with AWS Lambda as the options provided didn't suit our business cases."
"Lambda could be improved in the sense that some of the things done with Lambda function take some time. So the performance could be better and faster."
"The deployment process is a bit complex, so it could be simplified to make it easier for beginners to deploy."
"We need to invest time in learning the tool's language variant. We have encountered instances of downtime as well."
"Amazon doesn't have enough local support based in our country."
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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