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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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91 Likeliness to Recommend
99 Plan to Renew
87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+94 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Respectful
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
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Gnanaprakash B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2023
Easy to use and nice features
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
I dont think so. it is always evolving and can see more and more featues being added
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
easy to use
What do you dislike most about this product?
dont see anything to dislike
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
easy to use and wont take much time for any one to start using and getting benefits
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Laura B.
- Role: Public Sector
- Industry: Utilities
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2023
Satisfied from its performance
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
AWS EC2 allows you to swiftly scale capacity up and down as your computing needs change by cutting the time needed to purchase and boot additional server instances to minutes. Because it enables you to only pay for capacity that you really use, AWS EC2 alters the economics of computing. The resources to create programs that are resilient to failure and isolate themselves from failure scenarios.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Snapshots make backup easy, but they are expensive. We can select the operating system and get an idea of the cost. This will prevent unforeseen fees. Recently, our websites have experienced extremely high traffic however the Amazon EC2 instance fixed the problem. With EC2, we were able to get quick, affordable, and high-performing VPSs, which actually aided in increasing user confidence and productivity.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It appears difficult for beginners to begin with it at first. The majority of the programs still have somewhat outdated user interfaces. Moreover, there is no detailed description of how the utilized cloud services are billed. It offers a fairly comprehensive insight of the costs. You may occasionally need to continuously optimize your spending.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
AWS provides exceptional customer service and has a top-notch support staff. Also, the interface is very dependable and user-friendly. I appreciate how easy it is to set up an EC2 computer. We may claim that it moves quickly and completes in under an hour. The Interface is excellent and not overly complicated. It can be used by someone who is not tech savvy.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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Jesus R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2023
Cloud computing at its best
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
We mentioned this ourselves because, apart from the fact that the interface is very easy to use and reliable, unlike other tools, we have a great support team and the quality of service they provide is very good.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
What I find most attractive about this device is that it offers cloud storage potential, is affordable, and offers purpose-built database applications with built-in tools, as well as being accessible to organizations from anywhere.
What do you dislike most about this product?
In my personal opinion, setting up a virtual server is so easy that we ourselves have not found fault with this equipment.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This tool is an excellent service for remote instances of any operating system and we can recommend it ourselves as it has a wide range of services covering almost all domains of the IT industry.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
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