Amazon EC2 Primary Use Case
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SauravSingh
senior Engineer manager at Poshmark Inc.
We primarily use Amazon EC2 for managing our infrastructure services. We manage storage using the EBS solution, which assists with all of our database storage needs. Amazon EC2 provides us with various types of volumes, like IO2, IO1, and basic SSD. It is API-driven, allowing us to manage IOPS via AWS API calls.
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In most cases, I have customers coming to me inquiring about cloud computing, specifically how they can be assisted and utilize AWS. They want to understand how they can position themselves to use AWS EC2 instances efficiently. Some of the concerns that clients have looked into include security and scalability, and often customization as well.
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We use Amazon EC2 for web applications.
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Akshay Sarode
DevOps Engneer at SCL IT Technologies Pvt Ltd
My primary use case involves deploying multiple applications, such as web applications, database applications, and reporting platforms on EC2 instances. I use EC2 for creating and managing servers, integrating with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization, and automating tasks through Terraform scripts. My customers typically require different configurations, like Linux servers or specific database endpoints.
View full review »I am working for a company where we are doing a cloud migration. We are moving from on-premises to cloud, and we are using EC2 for the infrastructure.
View full review »We use Amazon EC2 for running containerized applications and as a server. It is a core component of our operations, supporting multiple platforms like ECS and EKS. Additionally, we're planning to use it for AI-driven projects.
View full review »One common application is as a test environment for various types of software. It serves as a cloud-based platform where team members can test different software pieces remotely regardless of location, eliminating the need for on-premise servers.
View full review »We use multiple Amazon EC2 instances to host the servers for multiple technologies.
View full review »EC2 is one of the most important AWS services to consider. Its vastness and scalability are exceptional. They are quite impressive.
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Edwin Soh
Regional IT Manager at Hunter Douglas(M) Sdn Bhd
I use the product for various purposes including running ERP systems, hosting financial planning software, managing web hosting, and supporting web applications.
View full review »My colleagues build applications on the public cloud and whenever expansion in terms of capacity or resources is needed, it's easier to do on Amazon EC2, so this is the use case for the solution.
View full review »I utilize a workstation within EC2.
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Mahmmoud Rabie
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Almost everything we have, including virtual machines on AWS, uses Amazon EC2. The solution is running our servers on AWS.
View full review »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.
View full review »We use Amazon EC2 for hosting our web fleet in autoscaling mode.
View full review »We use Amazon EC2 for our virtual machines. For example, if a client wants thier website to work with WordPress, we can use EC2 to spin up a virtual machine and then run WordPress in that environment.
View full review »I am using Amazon EC2 for computing applications in the cloud.
View full review »It allows us to provision and handle our services. We also have load balancing and auto-scaling as well.
View full review »I am using Amazon EC2 for migration of on-premise to the cloud.
View full review »We use the solution to host a web server or a demo server. Also, we use it as a restored target for disaster recovery.
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Keith Hodges
Environmental engineer at Coventry Building Society
I use it for NextCloud and for developer purposes. Mainly, I've got pipelines and Go CD pipelines.
View full review »We have a team to manage cloud solutions. 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.
View full review »I use this solution to allow me to use work via a cloud computing platform. This means I can access search information and features, such as Google Talk, that I would not normally be able to use.
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Henry_Chan
Director & Chief Executive at The Bank of East Asia, Limited
We use EC2 for some web-based applications. We have around 10 users.
View full review »I'm using TCDs and OCDs, and these are the two high-performance systems.
We have our business applications running on EC2.
View full review »I use this solution in my personal capacity for computing capacity. I use the free tier service.
We use Amazon EC2 for Windows and Linux systems. Additionally, we use it for UAT and load balancing.
View full review »Our primary use case is for migrating Linux boxes to Windows boxes. We deal mainly with small and medium-sized businesses that are looking to move away from on-prem hardware to the cloud. We are customers and I'm an MSP architect.
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 comprehensive ERP system within AWS.
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Jorge León
Head Of Information Technology at Bquate Music
We are using Amazon EC2 for two purposes for our customers, hosting the platform and storing assets.
View full review »We primarily use the solution as a server.
View full review »I've used it as a VBI. I've used it as a web application server. I'm also using it as an RGS server.
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Srinivas Potnuru
Owner at MATR
We are using Amazon EC2 for automation testing.
View full review »My primary use case for Amazon EC2 is running specific Windows programs on the cloud and collecting data from them.
View full review »Our company provides customers with business solutions for APIs, data warehousing, and process automation.
We have many clients and a hybrid model. Certain customers prefer on-premises and the rest run the solution from the cloud.
View full review »We are using Amazon EC2 for computing.
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Shamik Choudhury
Application Architect - BI at IBM
We had a client which has a legacy application that wanted to move to the cloud without a cloud-native solution. What they did was they moved to Amazon EC2 and asked for virtual machines. They had an Oracle database and licenses, they were all provided by the client, and then they all moved to the Amazon EC2 environment.
View full review »We are using EC2 only for our test and backup servers, not really as a proxy server. Few users are working with EC2. It's only 10 people.
View full review »We are using EC2 for a couple of things. We have integration with Control-M. We have on-prem integration with the on-prem Control-M systems, and we are using EC2 for that. We are also using EC2 for ECS as a worker node.
I'm using this solution for my company. We use multiple versions according to our needs and different types of instances and OS, like Windows, Linux, or auto-based.
The solution is deployed on a private cloud.
We have collaborated with AWS on different new service launches and POC, but we are not partners officially. We are a third party.
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Srinivasan Rengarajan
Chief Technology Officer at Ongil Private Limited
I primarily use Amazon AWS and EC2 services. The primary use case is to spawn servers quickly with a particular hardware memory, CPU, and storage footprint. It gives me a hardware service quickly, I can get a virtual machine with Linux installed with a particular storage configuration. I can also configure the security and bring it up.
Practically, it gives me a mini data center in one or two minutes.
We need to bring a large number of servers to do our jobs. We do a lot of crawling jobs hosted in AWS. We have templates available to us to bring a pool of servers up and running, hardware as a service.
In our use case, it's not the number of users using the solution, it's more the number of processes that respond. Based on the compressions and the jobs we do or sometimes we crawl, so the scaling is more in terms of the amount of data acquisition we do.
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Kazuya Nakajima
General Manager at Yokogawa
I installed the Windows server using EC2, and I set up some product programs.
View full review »We're primarily using the solution for deploying our application.
View full review »We don't use all the many features of EC2, we use it mainly for standalone application deployments, and we have auto-scaled and configured it for data storage. It's a domain use case, so we are deploying some specific applications in EC2, and maintaining them.
We typically use the solution for the web server.
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Edgar Orare
Senior Systems Engineer at Dimension Data
We use EC2 for test and dev environments.
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Nikos Ellinas
IT Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
EC2 and VPC are two services that are quite interconnected. EC2 is the Amazon console that uses the host resources in the data centers to launch servers, instances and services with VPC as the networking part.
Amazon EC2 is used if you are looking for a process serving cloud service.
View full review »I mainly use EC2 for hosting our application as well as some of the user data caching mechanism and mailing services.
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Ogaga
Security & DevOps Analyst at Newtopia Inc.
We have a couple of primary use cases. We have an internal password server that we use for one of them. The other use case is file transfer. We have set apart an in-house SFTP process and it is all there. ETL enterprise trends and the data transformation process also run on one of the servers.
We have databases that run on one of the EC2 docs. We have a direct database that runs AWS Postgres. We don't separate that, but we do have a part of the business that runs on the server as well.
My company has a couple of servers on EC2 that we manage across defined regions. We have roughly 11 servers currently in operation for live production services and around 5 staging environments.
We have Windows and Linux servers. I think there are less Linux servers than Windows at present. I would say there are two to three Linux centers and the rest are Windows. That's what we use. Of course we have detailed information of what we do but I can't go into too much information because our company is public.
View full review »We have a lot of use cases. Some of our customers have deployed their SIEM solutions on EC2 instances. Our company has also deployed a couple of business applications on EC2 instances.
View full review »We use the solution to host our backend servers.
View full review »We are running all of our application services on Amazon EC2.
View full review »We use EC2 to configure the Kubernetes environment clusters and to reconfigure Kubernetes by applications and microservices.
View full review »I build solutions in the infrastructure of my clients. I use Amazon EC2 in their AWS cloud.
With EC2, there are many different operating systems that you can use. If we were to talk about the size, I use the T2 and T3 instances and central apps for production and for Windows.
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Venkateswarlu Paturu
Service Delivery Manager / Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We've been using the solution basically for provisioning our development in a less production-heavy environment.
View full review »We are using this solution for relational DB servers, application servers, and IaaS. We are also using it for SMTP and HTTP services, for compute services.
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Enterprise Solutions Architect at InfoCepts
We used it for one of the supply chain products.
View full review »Our primary use case for Amazon EC2 is for front-end and back-end deployment.
We use EC2 for different kinds of websites that can be hosted, and for other directories.
View full review »Basically, whatever we're trying to do with physical VMs on-premise, we can directly replicate them on Amazon EC2.
View full review »The tool helps us to host applications.
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July 2025

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