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 important aspects are that the solution is scalable and easy to manage."
"The flexibility of the security features is what is interesting."
"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 feature of Amazon EC2 is its ability to spin a new virtual machine in a few seconds."
"The scalability of Amazon EC2 is good. However, the stability can depend on what service I am using."
"Amazon EC2 is highly scalable."
"The setup is straightforward and it takes around an hour."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ability to have standard operating systems along with the Windows, Linux operating systems, and their maintenance-free structure, which we prefer."
"The solution runs on the latest cloud technology so it is easy to deploy cloud-native projects."
"It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"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 utilization of containers is particularly beneficial in overcoming the size limitations imposed on Lambda functions which not only allows us to work around these constraints but also contributes to the improvement and maintenance of our code."
"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."
"This product is easy to use."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"The product needs to improve its cost management."
"Regional acceleration could improve. If I am hosting a website and I want the experience to be faster they should have this feature to allow for increased speeds."
"EC2 could be improved with easier migration."
"The price could be better, and it could be more affordable. Because I run my own servers, the prices are quite high."
"Nothing is really missing in terms of features."
"The GUI used to deploy EC2 must be improved."
"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."
"Pricing-wise, it is a bit high."
"The security needs to be improved."
"Another challenge I've noticed is that there is a limit to the environment variables such as the 4 KB limit. Although, the advice is to use parameters or other things to store the details when the limit has exceeded the data, this adds additional intensity to the application. If the size limits for environment variables can be revealed, it would be helpful. Even if we have to pay for it, at least we would know that we are not dealing with latency. So, I would like to see the size of the environment variables increased."
"Lambda can only be used in one account; there's no possibility to utilize it in another account."
"AWS Lambda should support additional languages."
"The user-friendliness of the solution could be improved."
"We face some problems with the event-driven execution model."
"They should work on the solution's stability and pricing."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
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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