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 most valuable feature is EC2 is scalable, so when you want to move to market, you don't need to wait until your provision is fast, you can just go and provision it and then easily install your application."
"The most valuable features of Amazon EC2 are ease of use and the services offered."
"Stable, scalable, and simple to implement."
"What we have found most valuable is that we have not lost stability in the program."
"The setup is straightforward and it takes around an hour."
"Amazon EC2's most valuable feature I have heard from clients is easy provisioning. Provisioning is very quick and easy."
"The ethernet configuration is stable and the product is reliable."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 is the computing capacity."
"The solution is designed very well. You don't need to keep a server up. You just need some router to route your API request and Lambda provides a very well-designed feature to process the request."
"It is serverless and scalable. It can scale infinitely. You don't have to worry about the size of the servers that you're pre-allocating. You don't have to build server scale-out models. Auto scale and other similar features are just inherent in Lambda. So, for atomic and fairly non-persistent transactional units of work, Lambda works very well."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Lambda is that you can trigger and run jobs instantly, and after you complete the job, that function is either destroyed or stopped automatedly."
"It is my preferred product, as it provides me with source code within the solution."
"It's a fairly easy solution to learn."
"Thanks to this solution, we do not need to worry about hardware or resource utilization. It saves us time."
"The support from AWS Lambda is very good, they are responsive."
"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."
"The GUI used to deploy EC2 must be improved."
"The initial setup could be easier because many keys are required for access."
"The initial deployment was complex."
"The price could be better, and it could be more affordable. Because I run my own servers, the prices are quite high."
"The availability and response time of the free technical support can be improved."
"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."
"Amazon EC2 could improve its dashboards and UI, they need to be more user-friendly."
"The solution is pretty expensive."
"The running time of AWS Lambda runs fine. It takes around five minutes but it would be great if that time could be extended."
"If it is a specific ETL process or a long-term one, then AWS Lambda is not a good option."
"The price in general could always be better."
"We'd love to see more integration potential in the future."
"There is room for improvement in user-friendliness. When comparing this solution to others it is not as user-friendly."
"We need to better understand Lambda for different scenarios. We need some joint effort between Amazon and the users to have the users identify how they can really leverage Lambda. It's not about Lambda itself; it's about the practice, the guidance. There needs to be very good documentation. From the user perspective, what exists now is not always enough."
"The security needs to be improved."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. We would also like to have better integration with other AWS features."
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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