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Amazon EC2 mindshare

As of May 2025, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 in the Compute Service category stands at 5.4%, down from 7.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
University
5%
Government
5%
Real Estate/Law Firm
4%
Educational Organization
4%
Retailer
4%
Media Company
4%
Healthcare Company
4%
Wholesaler/Distributor
3%
Logistics Company
1%
Energy/Utilities Company
1%
Hospitality Company
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Non Profit
1%
Wellness & Fitness Company
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
Agriculture
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Insurance Company
1%
Engineering Company
1%
Consumer Goods Company
1%
Marketing Services Firm
1%
Construction Company
1%

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senior Engineer manager at Poshmark Inc.
Verified user of Amazon EC2
May 2, 2025
Manages resources programmatically and brings innovations each year with affordability and reliability
KatlegoMabila - PeerSpot user
Senior AWS Account Manager at Silicon Overdrive
Verified user of Amazon EC2
Jan 26, 2025
Offers customization and flexibility with great support

Pros

"EC2 instances on AWS allow users to run virtual servers based on the CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity. "

Cons

"One of the things that need to be looked into is the complex pricing, which is rather intense."
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Raghuram K M - PeerSpot user
Chief Technology Officer at Prognosys Medical Systems
Verified user of Amazon EC2
May 2, 2025
Offers quick deployment and convenient on-demand scalability
AS
DevOps Engneer at SCL IT Technologies Pvt Ltd
Verified user of Amazon EC2
Dec 30, 2024
Empowers seamless application deployment with containerization and automation

Pros

"One of the most valuable features of EC2 is its accessibility; I can easily access it through various tools like GIT and use it on mobile devices."

Cons

"An area needing improvement is the time limitations when accessing EC2 instances. "
KhaderNawaz - PeerSpot user
Solution Architect at Virtusa Global
Verified user of Amazon EC2
Oct 8, 2024
Enhancing cloud infrastructure with dynamic resource allocation and regional flexibility

Pros

"Amazon EC2 allows us to create different regions and availability zones based upon application needs."

Cons

"The process of detaching EC2 instances to avoid billing could be less complex. "
ES
Regional IT Manager at Hunter Douglas(M) Sdn Bhd
Verified user of Amazon EC2
Jul 4, 2024
Reliable platform with valuable integration capabilities

Pros

"The platform has been quite stable and reliable."

Cons

"The product could benefit from offering more mixed instance types that combine features from different series to suit diverse workload requirements better. "
Siba Ngqoyiya - PeerSpot user
AWS Lead at +OneX
Verified user of Amazon EC2
Oct 9, 2024
Product version discussed: Amazon Linux 2
Effortless server scalability with good flexibility and integration

Pros

"Amazon EC2's flexibility and ease of configuration were found to be very valuable."

Cons

"We found Amazon EC2 to be pricey."
Craig Kona - PeerSpot user
Chief Information Officer at SYNOVA CONSULTANCT
Verified user of Amazon EC2
May 6, 2024
Acts as a test environment and is accessible remotely

Pros

"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. "

Cons

"Amazon EC2's pricing could be better. "