Amazon EC2 Reviews

Name: Amazon EC2
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (60 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

60 reviews
98% willing to recommend

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.

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Amazon EC2 is the #3 ranked solution in top Compute Service solutions. PeerSpot users give Amazon EC2 an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Amazon EC2 is most commonly compared to Apache Spark: Amazon EC2 vs Apache Spark. Amazon EC2 is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 67% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 21% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Alex Kabugo

System Engineer at Wipro Limited

Aug 21, 2023

EC2 is one of the most important AWS services to consider. Its vastness and scalability are exceptional. They are quite impressive EC2 has helped us to deploy various Microsoft applications efficiently. It has also facilitated our workstation operations. It serves as one of the primary servers…

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Julius Mboya

Chief technical officer at Solvezy Technology Kenya Limited

May 2, 2024

We have a business-to-business platform where we connect micro-enterprises to financial services. The solution is hosted in AWS and also has mobile components on the Google Play Store. We use authorization on Kubernetes and various AWS services like S3 and databases. The entire suite can host a…

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CarlosAraque

Data Warehouse Analyst at ACSO Australia

May 2, 2024

I utilize a workstation within EC2 It is important to provide good advice on where to start. We focus on the documentation. The documentation for each product is the initial step for beginning to use its capabilities. The main thing is usability of the product. In the process of implementing, you…

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Amazon EC2 mindshare

As of June 2024, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 in the Compute Service category stands at 7.2%, up from 7.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"There's a lot of encryption across the setups to ensure that database credentials and everything related to security are well managed."
"The scalability and elasticity are helpful."
"The tool's performance, reliability, security and flexibility are good. We can use it remotely. The autoscaling functionality of EC2 is quite good. I appreciate the DevOps suite for tracking development tasks. This functionality is important for pure software development."

Room for Improvement

"We faced a challenge in regard to billing. It took a lot of time because our state is set up in Kenya, so we needed to pay in Kenya currency. We have to go around in circles."
"Accessibility must be improved."
"Amazon EC2's pricing could be better."

Pricing

"The price can be improved."
"The tool's pricing is not cheap."
"The solution has different pricing models, and its cost differs when you purchase it for one year or three years."

These insights are based on the in-depth reviews provided by peers to help you make a better buying decision.

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Learn more about Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate them from common failure scenarios.

Amazon EC2 was previously known as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2.