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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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- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Respectful
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Amazon EC2 Reviews

Mohd J.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2023
Excellent product, Easy to use and quick support
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
There are numerous advantages to using Amazon Web Service EC2. It provides instances at any time based on computing and memory requirements. There are several operating systems to choose from. It is also available in a variety of physical locations. Since I work in India. In my own city, I have a data centre.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Really assists me in protecting websites from the cloud end.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The price is prohibitively expensive when compared to servers in the Middle East (Bahrain) to servers in India. Also when compared to other pricing models, the overall cost is high.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
You should compare the prices and features offered by top rivals before making a choice, in my opinion. Choose AWS if the price is about the same as other options since it has a variety of capabilities.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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Ravina M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2023
Amazon EC2 is the best Virtual Server service
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
Amazon EC2 is an excellent VPS (Virtual Private Server) service provided by Amazon AWS (Amazon Web Services). Amazon EC2 is used to obtain virtual servers for cloud computing. Amazon EC2 has trial instances so that we can test some features on the live VPS.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I use Amazon EC2 for hosting my websites and APIs on the Ubuntu Server on the Amazon AWS EC2 instance. It gives high availability of the server, and there are a wide range of operating systems instances available on EC2.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Amazon EC2 is sometimes down in some regions. Else there is nothing to dislike about Amazon EC2. It is an excellent service by Amazon AWS. Just they need to increase their free instances range.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Please choose your EC2 instance as per your requirements and budget.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
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Pradip B.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2023
"EC2-User Friendly and Efficient compute product"
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon EC2 from other similar products?
It has minimal cost as compare to other analogous product. It provide the easy implementation and integration step for user. Quick response time than comparative product. For any modification not take too long time that save valuable
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is very user friendly and easy to use and almost all time available.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It does not having any utilization dashboard like memory, disk and CPU.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I will definitely recommend this awesome product to all related acquaintances. EC2 has very much cost effective and efficient in cloud.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Efficient Service
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