We compared Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Both Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate offer valuable features such as scalability, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness, with positive feedback on customer service. However, EC2 is praised for its wide variety of instance types and integration options, while Fargate is commended for abstracting away infrastructure and efficient resource management.
Features: Amazon EC2 is praised for its scalability, flexibility, variety of instance types, reliable performance, global availability, customer support, and integration options. AWS Fargate stands out with its seamless scalability, ease of use, efficient resource management, abstraction of underlying infrastructure, server maintenance-free experience, high level of security and flexibility, and cost-effectiveness.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Amazon EC2 is considered straightforward and easy to understand, while AWS Fargate is praised for its ease of setup. Users have also mentioned the affordability and flexibility of the pricing plans offered by AWS Fargate., Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate both offer positive and beneficial ROIs. EC2 is commended for its cost-effectiveness, scalability, and flexibility, while Fargate is praised for its efficiency, scalability, and enhanced performance.
Room for Improvement: Amazon EC2 has room for improvement in enhancing the user interface, increasing instance availability and reducing launch time. Additionally, better pricing structures and integration with other AWS services are suggested. AWS Fargate, on the other hand, needs improvement in container orchestration, visibility and monitoring tools, resource allocation, networking limitations, and customer support.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews suggest that both Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate have varying durations for the deployment, setup, or implementation phases of a new tech solution. However, AWS Fargate seems to have a more significant variation in the required duration, with users reporting timelines ranging from three months for deployment and an additional week for setup, to just a week for both deployment and setup. This emphasizes that the duration for establishing a new tech solution using AWS Fargate can vary widely depending on individual circumstances., The customer service for Amazon EC2 is highly regarded and positively praised. AWS Fargate also receives positive comments, with prompt and efficient assistance and knowledgeable support demonstrated. Overall, customers seem satisfied with both products' customer service.
The summary above is based on 52 interviews we conducted recently with Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Amazon EC2 has plenty of scalability options to decrease or increase the number we need. Based on our bandwidth usage we may go for a higher or downgrade level. We can do it ourselves."
"My company uses the tool for cloud monitoring. We have a production, staging, deployment, and testing environment in AWS. However, we do not use the managed service of AWS yet. My team uses the required parameters for security like VPC, firewall, gates of security as well as the external layer of the app."
"I like the AMI-related features. A very good feature of this solution is the customizable AMI. It is a very good feature provided by Amazon. The encryption technologies are also very good. We are using KMS, etc."
"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."
"The most important aspects are that the solution is scalable and easy to manage."
"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."
"I use it for NextCloud and for developer purposes."
"EC2 provides a lot of flexibility. If you don't want to have a separate on-premise database, you can put it on the cloud with EC2. You can adjust the instance type according to your needs. You select a size and get a certain amount of specific memory, CPUs, etc. You set the redirect limit, and from there, you install the software, database servers, application servers, and whatever you want."
"If you create your deployment with a good set of rules for how to scale in, you can just set it and forget it."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Fargate is its ease of use."
"I like their containerization service. You can use Docker or something similar and deploy quickly without the know-how related to, for example, Kubernetes. If you use AKS or Kubernetes, then you have to have the know-how. But for Fargate, you don't need to have the know-how there. You just deploy the container or the image, and then you have the container, and you can use it as AWS takes care of the rest. This makes it easier for those getting started or if you don't have a strong DevOps team inside your organization."
"We appreciate the simple use of containers within this solution, it makes managing the containers quick and easy."
"AWS Fargate has many valuable services. It does the job with minimal trouble. It's very observable. You can see what's going on and you have logs. You have everything. You can troubleshoot it. It's affordable and it's flexible."
"Fargate itself is a stable product. We are quite satisfied with its performance."
"The most valuable feature of Fargate is that it's self-managed. You don't have to configure your own clusters or deploy any Kubernetes clusters. This simplifies the initial deployment and scaling process."
"Support doesn't share or give insights on OS-based issues. That needs to improve because if someone is buying an EC2 instance with the Windows server and SQL license, the client expects that there will be a minimum level of support."
"Its price can be reduced."
"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."
"Built-in and/or integration with other services to proactively identify potential failures before they occur."
"One of the challenges is the AMI upgrades."
"Amazon EC2 could improve its dashboards and UI, they need to be more user-friendly."
"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."
"Currently in the autoscaling process if we have multiple issues we are not able to connect some of the VPC through the SMS."
"We would like to see some improvement in the process documents that are provided with this product, particularly for auto-scaling and other configuration tools that are a bit complicated."
"We faced challenges in vertically scaling our workload."
"The main area for improvement is the cost, which could be lowered to be more competitive with other major cloud providers."
"I heard from my team that it's not easy to predict the cost. That is the only issue we have with AWS Fargate, but I think that's acceptable. AWS Fargate isn't user-friendly. Anything related to Software as a Service or microservice architecture is not easy to implement. You're required to have DevOps from your side to implement the solution. AWS Fargate is just a temporary solution for us. When we grow to a certain level, we may use AKS for better control."
"I would like to see the older dashboard instead of the newer version. I don't like the new dashboard."
"AWS Fargate could improve the privileged mode containers. We had some problems and they were not able to run."
"If there are any options to manage containers, that would be good. That relates more to the cost point. For example, over the next three months, I'll be making a comparison between solutions like CAST AI and other software-as-a-service platforms that offer Kubernetes management with an emphasis on cost reduction."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 4th in Compute Service with 56 reviews while AWS Fargate is ranked 6th in Compute Service with 7 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while AWS Fargate is rated 8.8. 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 Fargate writes "Efficiently auto-scales and good performance". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Lambda, Apache Spark, Apache NiFi, AWS Batch and Google App Engine, whereas AWS Fargate is most compared with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, AWS Lambda, AWS Batch, Oracle Compute Cloud Service and Apache Spark. See our AWS Fargate vs. Amazon EC2 report.
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