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Amazon EC2

Composite Score

9.1 /10

CX Score

9.3 /10

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What is Amazon EC2?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 500 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model to help you best match the needs of your workload. We are the first major cloud provider that supports Intel, AMD, and Arm processors, the only cloud with on-demand EC2 Mac instances, and the only cloud with 400 Gbps Ethernet networking.

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Awards & Recognition

Amazon EC2 won the following awards in the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service category

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2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience

Latest Award, 2024

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024

10 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Service Experience
Product Impact

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

9 Top Rated Capabilities

11 Top Rated Features

2023

Amazon EC2 Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+94 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Amazon EC2?

2% Negative

2% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Respectful

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Load Balancing

Cloud Integration

Capacity Management

Encryption and Decryption Support

Cloud Backup

Access Management

Systems Performance Management

Data Migration

Analytics and Reporting

SLA Management

Regulatory Compliance

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

Amazon EC2 Reviews

Sivaraman R.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Insurance
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2022

Awesome Amazon Web services

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

One stop solution and one throat to choke principle. Everything that an enterprise needed is available and doesn't need to look outside to build a perfect enterprise solution

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Server less calculation and containers are amazing with top performance and high availability

What do you dislike most about this product?

Learning curve and user experience on the portal compared with other vendors

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Perfect enterprise cloud that delivers High availability, resilient and secured

Pros

Trustworthy
Unique Features
Effective Service
Caring

Cons

Vendor's Interest First

ALPER K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2022

A new era in Cloud Technology

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

* Very easy to use. * You use and you pay. You do not have to pay for services that you do not use .

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

* Deployment

What do you dislike most about this product?

* I prefer Pod technology that I used in Kubernetes.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

* Please use similar technology with Kubernetes.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Unique Features

Relishiya T.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2022

AWS for the best public cloud service

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

Amazon web services is a cloud platform to run various business services, which requires web apps up and running with minimum resources! The DynamoDB of AWS can run on AWS without any servers so that the use of Relational databases are minimized. It has its auto backup functionalities. cost of hosting services made it simple in AWS. This made simple for the Developers to maintain an application in an Enterprise level

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Favorite aspect of this web service is it’s efficiency and robustness. It resolves the problems by minimizing the cost my minimal usage of resources. AWS cloud helps the IT administration, load balancing services, VPC, cloud storage and cloud computing services.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Almost it contains all the good functionalities to develop and maintain enterprise level applications! the documentation of the AWS could have been made more user friendly for the starters to easily understand and get familiar ( ex: lambda functions)

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I recommend AWS with my personal experience for its robustness, public cloud usability and efficiency. cost of the application development made simple as it offers pay as you use policy. It provides cloud storage solutions and computing services made it more convenient. It is one of the best and innovative shared cloud platform

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Unique Features

Amazon EC2

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Amazon EC2 Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+94 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Amazon EC2?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Load Balancing Allows distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources.

Cloud Integration Includes real-time data integration, APIs, and data quality.

Capacity Management Monitor system utilization and provide alerts when pre-defined thresholds are reached.

Encryption and Decryption Support Support for real-time decryption and re-encryption of information.

Cloud Backup Includes backup schedules, encryption algorithms, and data support.

Access Management Includes social sign-on, external authorization, and fraud detection.

Systems Performance Management Includes monitoring, analyzing and configuration in order to optimize performance and increase efficiency.

Data Migration The ability to select and extract data from one storage system to another

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

SLA Management Includes a contracted delivery time, automated escalations, and timely resolutions.

Regulatory Compliance Includes compliance with regulations and standards such as SOX, HIPPA, NIST, PCI-DSS etc.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Amazon EC2 Reviews

Sivaraman R.

Awesome Amazon Web services

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

ALPER K.

A new era in Cloud Technology

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Relishiya T.

AWS for the best public cloud service

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Load Balancing

Cloud Integration

Capacity Management

Encryption and Decryption Support

Cloud Backup

Access Management

Systems Performance Management

Data Migration

Analytics and Reporting

SLA Management

Regulatory Compliance

Vendor Capability Ratings

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization