Amazon EC2 Reviews

Name: Amazon EC2
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.3 (64 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

64 reviews
98% willing to recommend

121 followers

What is Amazon EC2?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.

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Amazon EC2 is the #5 ranked solution in top Compute Service solutions. PeerSpot users give Amazon EC2 an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 64 most recent Amazon EC2 reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 7.2. (Among the lowest in the category). Amazon EC2 is most commonly compared to Apache Spark: Amazon EC2 vs Apache Spark. Amazon EC2 is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 68% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 19% of all views.

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Julius Mboya

Chief technical officer at Solvezy Technology Kenya Limited

We faced a challenge in regard to billing. There was a time when we were working on changing the mode of payment from card to wire. It took a lot of time because our state is set up in Kenya, so we needed to pay in Kenya currency. We have to go around in circles. There was a lot of documentation required, but we managed to go through successfully.

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CarlosAraque

Data Warehouse Analyst at ACSO Australia

It is important to provide good advice on where to start. We focus on the documentation. The documentation for each product is the initial step for beginning to use its capabilities. The main thing is usability of the product. In the process of implementing, you need to spend time learning about the tool, understanding, and its restrictions.

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MOMEN ABDELSADEK

Senior ict specialist at Information& eGov Authority

My impression is that the scalability of this product could be improved. My opinion is that, for example, the Lambda solution is much more scalable than EC2. AWS provides everything to scale and gives you, based on their AI, a suggestion on whether to scale or not. This affects the payment so that is why we cannot scale quickly. It's not managed or scalable by itself. Developers should be able to easily scale EC2.

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Amazon EC2 mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 in the Compute Service category stands at 6.4%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Compute Service	Jan 10, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Jan 10, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon EC2 vs AWS Lambda	Jan 10, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon EC2 vs Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling	Jan 10, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon EC2 vs AWS Fargate	Jan 10, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Apache Spark	4.2	11.4%	90%	64 interviews Add to research
AWS Lambda	4.2	20.4%	94%	82 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"One of the most valuable features of EC2 is its accessibility; I can easily access it through various tools like GIT and use it on mobile devices."
"Amazon EC2's flexibility and ease of configuration were found to be very valuable."
"Amazon EC2 allows us to create different regions and availability zones based upon application needs."

Room for Improvement

"An area needing improvement is the time limitations when accessing EC2 instances."
"We found Amazon EC2 to be pricey."
"The process of detaching EC2 instances to avoid billing could be less complex."

Pricing

"We are paying about $1,500 a month for one of the services."
"It's competitive but can vary based on instance types and usage patterns."
"The price can be improved."

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Top industries

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Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Retailer

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University

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Government

Comms Service Provider

Real Estate/Law Firm

Healthcare Company

Insurance Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Wholesaler/Distributor

Pharma/Biotech Company

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Consumer Goods Company

Construction Company

Agriculture

Non Profit

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Logistics Company

Legal Firm

Hospitality Company

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Learn more about Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate them from common failure scenarios.

Amazon EC2 was previously known as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2.