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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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Since last award

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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
Respectful
Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Cloud Integration

Load Balancing

Capacity Management

Encryption and Decryption Support

Cloud Backup

Access Management

Systems Performance Management

Data Migration

Analytics and Reporting

SLA Management

Workflow Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

Amazon EC2 Reviews

Shivaling P.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

"Awesome Product to use!" from AWS Cloud Provider

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

Amazon EC2 has been at the forefront of modernising and transforming IaaS in cloud computing arena. It has undoubtedly more robust features and combinations to use from for high performance computing than its competitiors.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favourite aspect of the product is its compute optimized instances on offer and how it fares well with Elastic Kubernetes service.

What do you dislike most about this product?

What i dislike is it has to offer more flavours of linux distributions and more windows based distributions for wider reach.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I really recommend to go and try your application workloads to experience the power of modern computing.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Inspires Innovation
Acts with Integrity

Pranav P.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Easy to get started but you get locked with AWS

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

EC2 in all is a great product what stands out is the integrations that are provided with EC2. Integration with VPC and other security groups is very well organized and can be easy to set up than with other providers. All key management is done out of the box. AWS has good API support for deploying EC2 instances from significant Infrastructure as Code tools. Terraform and Pulumi works with EC2 out of the box and the developer experience is excellent. The visualization and the new UI also provide most of the page's information. Many different types of support for OS. Autoscaling features. Cloudwatch integration.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

1. Best integration with the Infrastructure as Code tools. 2. Networking aspect is very intuitive. 3. Varied support for OS. All new OS are readily available. 4. Can run KVM's in the machines as Virtualisation is available. 5. Autoscaling feature.

What do you dislike most about this product?

1. Some services like Elastic beanstalk use EC2 and it is sometimes difficult to differentiate between which my code deploys instance and which instance is deployed by Elastic beanstalk. 2. The pricing varies too much according to traffic etc. Other Cloud providers have flat rates.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

1. Enable interconnects like Infiniband for HPC applications. 2. Introduce flat rates for instances. 3. Allow visualization of all the nodes on one page from all regions.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Includes Product Enhancements

Cons

Vendor Friendly Policies
Less Efficient Service
Vendor's Interest First

Abhimanyu S.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

The Oldest yet the most Reliable Cloud Provider

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?

Amazon EC2 offers the most feature rich service with almost all capabilities and functionality required for any kind of business or personal use case. It also offers the most community rich forums to discuss and evaluate new features with top-in line documentations.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

AWS has the most humble support with state of the art technicians who are very much aware of the functionalities in and out of AWS. The cost vs service ratio is lowest for AWS among all the cloud providers.

What do you dislike most about this product?

There are many observation where certain regions have insufficient capacity of certain instance types because of which there are issues observed during AWS auto-scaling group.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend going with AWS cloud if you are not a professional cloud service user since this is easy-to-use cloud with almost all of the services and features along with great documentation and community rich discussions.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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

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

Load Balancing Allows distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources.

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.

Workflow Management Includes ability to support flexible and comprehensive workflow-based capabilities.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Amazon EC2 Reviews

Shivaling P.

"Awesome Product to use!" from AWS Cloud Provider

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Pranav P.

Easy to get started but you get locked with AWS

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Abhimanyu S.

The Oldest yet the most Reliable Cloud Provider

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Cloud Integration

Load Balancing

Capacity Management

Encryption and Decryption Support

Cloud Backup

Access Management

Systems Performance Management

Data Migration

Analytics and Reporting

SLA Management

Workflow Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support