Amazon EC2 Reviews

Name: Amazon EC2
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (61 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

61 reviews
98% willing to recommend

116 followers

What is Amazon EC2?

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 #4 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 69% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 23% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Julius Mboya

Chief technical officer at Solvezy Technology Kenya Limited

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

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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MOMEN ABDELSADEK

Senior ict specialist at Information& eGov Authority

We use EC2 like a virtual machine. It's like an instant server, so we use it as a separate server. EC2 is flexible when we need to increase its resources (memory, boosting, and storage) based on our usage. That is the power of EC2 The feature I found most valuable is flexibility in being able to…

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Amazon EC2 mindshare

As of September 2024, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 in the Compute Service category stands at 7.0%, up from 6.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The platform has been quite stable and reliable."
"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."

Room for Improvement

"The product could benefit from offering more mixed instance types that combine features from different series to suit diverse workload requirements better."
"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."

Pricing

"It's competitive but can vary based on instance types and usage patterns."
"The price can be improved."
"The tool's pricing is not cheap."

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Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

18%

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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.