No more typing reviews! Try our Samantha, our new voice AI agent.

ECS-Optimized Windows vs Ignition Cloud Edition comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

ECS-Optimized Windows
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
34th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Ignition Cloud Edition
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
9th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of ECS-Optimized Windows is 0.2%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Ignition Cloud Edition is 0.2%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Ignition Cloud Edition0.2%
ECS-Optimized Windows0.2%
Other99.6%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

SC
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Preconfigured containers have cut licensing costs and now save our team time with faster booting
ECS-Optimized Windows can improve by giving us new generation instances rather than the old generation's AMD chips or other older technology. It should use the new generation instances, and it should also modernize the storage and the file systems that it is using because those are very old and sometimes problematic. It should also improve or add advanced configurations to the things that we are doing so it can help us and give us more efficiency and productivity in our team. It should give us good analysis, particularly more detailed analysis, with the AWS tools because it is operated by AWS. It is cloud-based, and we are getting it from AWS, so they should also integrate it with AWS better.
Hassana Abubakar - PeerSpot reviewer
Control Systems (Scada) Engineer at Mainstream Energy Solutions Limited
Cloud monitoring has transformed real-time plant control and automated preventive maintenance
There is always room for improvement, and at the moment, I am on the good side. I do not really have a bad side of it or anything that I would like to see changed; I love what I see and I love what I use. One feature that comes to my mind as missing in Ignition Cloud Edition is the user graphics in the user interface. The graphics in the user interface, such as the slider or the shapes for the equipment, can be improved upon. When I am selecting a tank, I should see a real tank, or when I am selecting a breaker, it should look like a real breaker in the field, or a valve or a sensor or a slider. Every other feature, such as the graphs and charts, are cool.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Our teams can scale at least 40% faster than before, accounting for waiting for it to boot and load everything."
"ECS-Optimized Windows has positively impacted my organization because I have been using it for proof of concepts and it increases the speed of running them because I do not have to worry about creating my own image."
"After deploying our Windows workloads using ECS-Optimized Windows on AWS, we saw improved reliability and measurable operational efficiencies."
"Ignition Cloud Edition has positively impacted my organization by enabling sharing so that projects can be shared without everyone having to access them through manual file sharing."
"Both the database and Ignition can be set up very easily without any hardware, and reliability and high availability are always there, built in."
"My main use case for Ignition Cloud Edition, even if it's just in my learning phase, was that it is a very interesting cloud platform, it was very much feasible, it can interface to multiple types of controllers and also with RTUs, and I see that its application can be used in other applications which is much more comfortable than other available platforms."
"Ignition gives you the blank paper to dream it, reach it, and draw whatever you need."
"Ignition platform is a general, powerful platform that is easy to use and cost-effective, where in most cases, you pay one time for your license and then use it forever."
"What I love about Ignition Cloud Edition is the advantages and functionalities it has over other SCADA software."
 

Cons

"ECS-Optimized Windows can improve by giving us new generation instances rather than the old generation's AMD chips or other older technology."
"Improvements for ECS-Optimized Windows could include faster Windows patch cycles, a lighter AMI footprint for quicker boot times, better visibility into container-level performance metrics, and improved cost optimization guidance."
"One problem with ECS-Optimized Windows is that the image size is quite large."
"The accuracy of Ignition Cloud Edition is not very great, and reliability also needs improvement."
"The way the historian is set up is not conducive to large deployments and it makes querying the data challenging."
"For someone considering Ignition Cloud Edition, I think it is not bad, but honestly, I see it as overpriced."
"The pricing aspect of Ignition Cloud Edition is actually on the high side."
"My concern is about cybersecurity. Since it's a cloud platform, the chances of countering cybersecurity attacks will be a major concern."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which AWS Marketplace solutions are best for your needs.
909,725 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
41%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
10%
Construction Company
32%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
Wholesaler/Distributor
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ECS-Optimized Windows?
I think ECS includes licenses, so it reduces the stress. Also, the cost is very low, at $0.04 per hour per version of the CPU. We can also get our own license. It follows the BYOL method. I told yo...
What needs improvement with ECS-Optimized Windows?
ECS-Optimized Windows can improve by giving us new generation instances rather than the old generation's AMD chips or other older technology. It should use the new generation instances, and it shou...
What is your primary use case for ECS-Optimized Windows?
My main use case for ECS-Optimized Windows involves utilizing the machines offered by AWS, which means a workload like the image of Windows, exactly. It is provided by AWS with right-sizing for the...
What needs improvement with Ignition Cloud Edition?
Ignition Cloud Edition itself functions well, but Ignition in general has some things that could be improved, and the cloud edition also has those same issues. The way the historian is set up is no...
What is your primary use case for Ignition Cloud Edition?
I spin up an instance of Ignition Cloud Edition and simulate a bunch of tags and record them in a separate database.
 

Overview

Find out what your peers are saying about ECS-Optimized Windows vs. Ignition Cloud Edition and other solutions. Updated: June 2026.
909,725 professionals have used our research since 2012.