Amazon EC2 Other Advice
If someone hasn't started using EC2 yet, I'd recommend exploring it. EC2 offers simplicity, robustness, and support for efficient cloud operations. It's a tool that's definitely worth considering.
Overall, I would rate the solution a solid ten on ten.
View full review »I would recommend that new users be very clear on what they require from this solution, and advise that they start with the 'user on demand' package until they know exactly what level of usage they need.
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
View full review »Overall, I would rate this solution a nine, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.
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Amazon EC2
April 2024
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My company uses AWS products, including cloud services. Amazon EC2 is being used within the company as well.
My company has about ten thousand employees that use Amazon EC2 because everybody connects to the internet. For example, employees use the mail service from the console and Outlook service on the cloud. Everyone uses the internet within the company, so that means Amazon EC2 is being used as well, especially in this COVID situation.
Right now, employees use more applications such as streaming and video services which require more connectivity and cloud capacity, so there's a plan to increase usage for Amazon EC2.
In terms of how much staff is required for the deployment and maintenance of Amazon EC2, I'm not quite sure how much technical staff my company has because some of the technical staff was outsourced. There's no permanent IT staff in the office.
I'm recommending Amazon EC2 to other people because it's a critical product that has more reliability. It has good quality, and it also has many features, so if the features support your use cases, then Amazon EC2 would be a good product for you.
My rating for Amazon EC2 is nine out of ten.
View full review »It's important to have somebody familiar with the solution on board, especially if it's an organization that wants to move quickly.
I rate this solution nine out of 10.
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Mahmmoud Rabie
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
I am using the latest version of Amazon EC2. Amazon EC2 is deployed in our organization on cloud. If you know you will use a virtual machine for a long time, it is better to have Amazon EC2 as a reserve, which will be way cheaper.
Overall, I rate Amazon EC2 an eight out of ten.
I am using the latest version as it is on the cloud.
I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.
I would recommend the solution to others.
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I would rate it an eight out of ten.
I rate Amazon EC2 10 out of 10. I highly recommend EC2. You should go for it if you can afford it.
View full review »I give Amazon EC2 a nine out of ten.
Our entire organization is using Amazon EC2.
View full review »We're customers and end-users.
I'd advise new users to practice sizing and try to keep their environment according to their needs. If you have an oversized server, it will cost too much money.
I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten overall.
View full review »We are using the cloud version of Amazon EC2. I would recommend Amazon EC2 to users looking for a secure, scalable, and reliable solution to host all their servers.
Overall, I rate Amazon EC2 a nine out of ten.
Depending upon the use case, it is suitable for disaster recovery. I recommend users set up usage limits or track budgets on-site.
Amazon EC2 has been functional. We repatriate some stuff in-house because of the ongoing costs.
Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
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Keith Hodges
Environmental engineer at Coventry Building Society
Overall, I would rate the product a one out of ten. I wouldn't recommend other people to use the solution. My issue with Amazon is not with the product but with the company's ethics. I wouldn't trust them with anything so I would rate it a one out of ten. In January 2020, Amazon closed down a billion-dollar company just because it was a competitor to Twitter, and they thought Donald Trump would get an account on it. They broke all their contracts, destroyed the company, and left them unable to recover. That's why I don't trust Amazon as far as I can throw them.
View full review »I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. I like the product’s performance. We have a different methodology where we check the work and evaluate how it is beneficial and how we can reduce the costs. My company is working on this. We use the solution for temporary use cases. My team uses it to build, produce and monitor the cloud versions. If there is a need to scale up or down, we will do that. Amazon EC2 has auto-load elastic LV.
The solution is stable and we have never faced any downtime with it. We also have an alarm system where we get ticket notifications. Our applications have never been down and we are happy with Amazon EC2.
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Srinivasan Rengarajan
Chief Technology Officer at Ongil Private Limited
We plan to increase usage as our business expands, we will grow with AWS as it expands.
In terms of the EC2 services, it's an amazing product, in terms of the computational power and the flexibility and then the number of features and services they provide, it's awesome actually.
I would rate it a ten out of ten.
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Ogaga
Security & DevOps Analyst at Newtopia Inc.
My advice to anyone considering this is that they need to evaluate if it's necessary to have EC2, or if it is cheaper to run something in-house. It's very important because you don't want to throw money at cloud service providers if you can do it yourself. But the good thing is that cloud service providers take care of all the infrastructure and everything so you don't have to worry about that. It's nice to also have someone else accountable for your every structure rather than employing so many people at your job to do the work. That's the only good side about it. It is easy to learn Azure and all those GCP products.
On a scale of one to ten I would give Amazon EC2 an 8.
I definitely would not give it a 10. 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. Sometimes performance is an issue because of the kind of incidents that you have. That is why it cannot be a nine or a 10. But because CloudWatch is embedded in it, it lets you know when your system fails by sending you an email. It also has Trend Micro included. I think you may have to pay for it, am not sure. So it has benefits if you use it with other AWS services.
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I'm using a normal regular EC2. I'm not using containers.
On the cloud, we use both Amazon and Azure as our cloud.
I'd recommend the solution as it is scalable, readily available, and offers good cost savings. People who know AWS have been very happy with the experience.
I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.
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Jorge León
Head Of Information Technology at Bquate Music
I rate Amazon EC2 a nine out of ten.
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ASHOK YADAV
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would recommend this solution to others. I would rate it an eight out of ten.
View full review »I would rate this solution 7 out of 10.
I will say AWS EC2 is a great place to start. Microsoft Azure is also good. The solution will be dependent upon the exact use case, but AWS EC2 is a good place to start.
View full review »I'm not sure which version of the solution we're using.
I'd advise others to make sure they understand pricing before diving in.
I would rate the solution nine out of ten. I really don't have anything bad to say about its capabilities.
View full review »I would recommend this solution to others who want to start using it.
I would rate Amazon EC2 a nine out of ten, with one being poor and 10 being excellent.
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Henry_Chan
Director & Chief Executive at The Bank of East Asia, Limited
I rate Amazon EC2 seven out of 10.
View full review »I rate this solution nine out of 10.
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Nikos Ellinas
IT Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
This is an amazing solution although it's not suitable for every company.
They lose one point because the price is quite high so I rate this product nine out of 10.
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Kazuya Nakajima
General Manager at Yokogawa
I'd recommend the solution to other users and companies.
I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
View full review »I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
View full review »I would recommend this solution to others and Azure. This is a fantastic solution, it provides the basic requirement for any cloud. They make available computing space or a server to use for customers.
I rate Amazon EC2 an eight out of ten.
I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.
I would rate Amazon EC2 a seven out of ten.
View full review »EC2 is secure and stable, and we have no complaints about it on AWS. However, Microsoft is more helpful with our go-to-market strategy, which motivates us to use Azure more than EC2. I would rate EC2 as ten out of ten.
View full review »If you're planning to use Amazon EC2, I recommend thoroughly testing your servers beforehand. This is especially important if you're migrating from an existing server to Amazon EC2, as there can be issues with transferring the entire image. To avoid any problems, make sure to test the image you're importing before the migration process.
I rate Amazon EC2 an eight out of ten.
I gave my rating of eight because they are lacking in console access.
View full review »I rate Amazon EC2 a nine out of ten.
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Shamik Choudhury
Application Architect - BI at IBM
I would recommend this solution to others.
I rate Amazon EC2 an eight out of ten.
View full review »Know your use cases. You have to analyze your load and use case before you select a particular EC2 machine. You also need to look into the availability and the stability of that particular version of EC2 that you are going for.
Mainly Windows is secure, but Linus and others are difficult to secure.
I would rate this solution a seven out ten.
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reviewer1419942
Senior Database Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Amazon EC2 is the right choice for cloud services processing.
I would recommend this solution to others.
I rate Amazon EC2 a nine out of ten.
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Srinivas Potnuru
Owner at matr.co
I rate Amazon EC2 a nine out of ten.
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Mahender Nirwan
Software developer at TAIGLE LLC
I give the solution a nine out of ten.
We require two people for deployment and maintenance.
I recommend the solution to others.
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Edgar Orare
Senior Systems Engineer at Dimension Data
I would rate Amazon EC2 nine out of 10.
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reviewer2149824
Head of Digital Transformation at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would rate the product a ten out of ten.
View full review »We are encouraging our customers to go to the cloud. It’s aligned with our business.
I would recommend the solution. I’d rate it eight out of ten.
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reviewer2263155
Lead Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Azure uses Sentinel, which is dedicated to security information and event management. However, AWS does not have a centralized solution for SIEM. AWS is using security hubs like GuardDuty, but it is for different purposes. We have to log in to these dashboards separately. AWS needs to have a centralized SIEM solution.
People who want to use the product must consider the future predictability and decide whether they need a single EC2 instance or a Load Balancing or Auto Scaling infrastructure deployment and deploy accordingly.
Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
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reviewer940044
Senior Manager -Datacenter Planning and Operations at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would give this solution a rating of eight out of ten.
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I'm not sure which version of the solution I'm on.
If a new user wants to use Amazon EC2 for their professional work or their deployments, then they need to think about the cost. The cost of the cloud is a bit higher compared to other things. They need to also consider the settings and functionality in Amazon EC2. They really need to look at their use case and scenario. However, it is something worth trying for testing purposes.
I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. It's made out life easier. We don't have to worry about scalability or maintenance any longer. It also offers good load balancing and other kinds of features.
I rate Amazon EC2 a ten out of ten.
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reviewer1301412
Founder & CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I would recommend identifying the active directory configuration of your clients. The majority of client type integrations will have some active directory involved, and they also have Office 365 now. Getting a better understanding of that configuration will help the solution implementer in using the AWS platform.
I would rate Amazon EC2 a nine out of ten.
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Venkateswarlu Paturu
Service Delivery Manager / Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We're just a customer.
I'd recommend this solution to others.
Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I'd rate it at a nine.
View full review »For small startups it makes perfect sense. For large organizations with R&D team/budget, it may make sense. For medium-size companies, where they just need solutions built quickly, I am not convinced about AWS at the moment. Looks promising, but it's a very new platform, with issues that come with a new platform.
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Chirag Dash
Software Engineer at Apmosys Technology Pvt. Ltd.
I would rate the tool a nine out of ten.
View full review »I rate this solution nine out of 10.
View full review »I would recommend any solution that helps solve the needs assessment. I would rate Amazon EC2 a seven out of ten.
View full review »You have to consider some factors, like scalability of the services offered by your company. If you need to be online 24/7, then you need a powerful and reliable infrastructure.
Our company, Drivver, uses a wide range of services offered by Amazon AWS, from computational instances to artificial intelligence services, so we need a cohesive and concentrated infrastructure in a single IaaS provider.
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reviewer387652
Enterprise Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I'd recommend Amazon EC2 to others. I'd rate it an eight out of ten.
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reviewer1257582
Director Software Engineering at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We use the cloud deployment model.
I'd advise others to understand the costs involved before implementing the solution. There are transaction and storage costs as well as running costs.
I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.
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principa670293
Principal Technical Trainer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Take note of usage costs for all related services being used. For example, running an EC2 instance with vendor software may require paying for EBS volumes, Elastic IPs, Snapshots, and other software licenses. Enable Billing notifications to be alerted whenever costs exceed a certain threshold. Lockdown instances to only provide access via tightly controlled security groups. Use public key authentication, whenever possible, and restrict direct access to superuser accounts.
EC2 is an excellent IaaS service enabling quick deployment of applications.
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Amazon EC2
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Amazon EC2. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.