We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Cloud [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, Zadara and others in Compute Service."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."
"The ethernet configuration is stable and the product is reliable."
"Its ease of use is valuable."
"The scalability of Amazon EC2 is good. However, the stability can depend on what service I am using."
"The setup is straightforward and it takes around an hour."
"Amazon EC2 is really reliable and provides great flexibility."
"The most valuable feature is EC2 is scalable, so when you want to move to market, you don't need to wait until your provision is fast, you can just go and provision it and then easily install your application."
"The most valuable features of Amazon EC2 are ease of use and the services offered."
"There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services."
"The most valuable feature for us is the support, which is really efficient."
"Image backup is a valuable feature. Even though this is a common feature, it is very helpful for us."
"Amazon EC2 is very expensive, and it would be helpful if they decreased the pricing."
"They have to provide clarity on pricing. It's not transparent."
"Support doesn't share or give insights on OS-based issues. That needs to improve because if someone is buying an EC2 instance with the Windows server and SQL license, the client expects that there will be a minimum level of support."
"They should fix the key pair name functionality and provide the ability to assign multiple key pair names to an EC2 instance. It is a key pair feature, and it provides you the ability to actually log into the server. It is basically like a password. In terms of new features, it should have the ability to increase and decrease the instance size based on certain times of the day. We should be able to do this without turning off the EC2 instance. Currently, you have to turn it off and then turn it back on. It should also have HTTPS or SSL integration."
"Amazon EC2 could improve its dashboards and UI, they need to be more user-friendly."
"I think the whole AWS stack is very disconnected from each other. in the .NET space, everything just works nicely together. In the AWS stack, there is a lot of head scratching."
"The ease of migrating applications could be improved."
"The IP changes whenever we restart which is frustrating."
"It would be nice to have more built-in suites compared to others. It would enable easier integration."
"It doesn't offer Elastic IP like AWS. And also we can't configure our server based on region."
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Amazon EC2 is ranked 4th in Compute Service with 56 reviews while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Compute Service. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] 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 Rackspace Cloud [EOL] writes "There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Fargate, Apache Spark, AWS Lambda, Apache NiFi and AWS Batch, whereas Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is most compared with .
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