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."My favorite feature of this solution is the flexibility of instance types, which allows for the cost to be tailored to the usage amount and type."
"The product is easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 is the virtual machines that are available."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"EC2 has the typical advantages of using the cloud. It's easy to provision and set up."
"The ethernet configuration is stable and the product is reliable."
"The most valuable features are the scalability options, low maintenance, and options to upgrade. AWS support is also pretty good. The generation upgrade is pretty simple and standardized."
"I can quickly create a VM instance with just one click."
"We have no issues with the technical support."
"It is my preferred product, as it provides me with source code within the solution."
"One of the most valuable features of AWS Lambda is the performance. Lambda is very technical and has very high performance, as well as good real-time performance."
"Amazon takes care of the scalability. That's the right way. It's automatic and it's fully managed. That's one benefit of Lambda."
"I like that it's easy to use and maintain. Lambda is good and supports different platforms, so you don't need to worry about language or maintenance."
"Some of the most valuable features are that it's easy to install and use. The performance is also good."
"The ability to scale up and down very quickly helps because we can maintain our system performance and business at a low cost."
"We use AWS Lambda because it provides a solution for our needs without requiring us to manage our infrastructure. With the tool, we only pay for the resources we use. Additionally, it is straightforward to implement and integrates with other services like API Gateway."
"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."
"We're expecting to have Graviton instances. Graviton means it's not internal, it's a low-cost instance. At present time, Graviton is not supported for a few packages."
"I think the pricing needs to be adjusted and better security."
"The availability and response time of the free technical support can be improved."
"Amazon EC2 could improve its dashboards and UI, they need to be more user-friendly."
"EC2 is a little expensive."
"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."
"The GUI used to deploy EC2 must be improved."
"Lambda's dashboard could be more user-friendly and customizable. I want the dashboard to have more information to quickly identify what functions and events are running. Also, we want to be able to add more trigger points, push notifications, and events."
"Lambda has limitations on the amount of memory you can use and is not a good solution for long running processes."
"AWS Lambda should support additional languages."
"There are other similar solutions, such as Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure. They might be better for small tasks."
"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."
"The product needs some updating as far as ease-of-customization and configuration opportunities to work with solutions outside of the cloud."
"It would be ideal if we could use the solution across different platforms."
"The user-friendliness of the solution could be improved."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 4th in Compute Service with 56 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, Apache NiFi, AWS Batch 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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