Amazon EC2 Reviews

Name: Amazon EC2
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.3 (63 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

63 reviews
98% willing to recommend

119 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 63 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 financial services firm, accounting for 22% of all views.

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Featured reviews

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 November 2024, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 in the Compute Service category stands at 6.8%, up from 6.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Last updated Nov 21, 2024

Valuable Features

"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."
"The platform has been quite stable and reliable."

Room for Improvement

"We found Amazon EC2 to be pricey."
"The process of detaching EC2 instances to avoid billing could be less complex."
"The product could benefit from offering more mixed instance types that combine features from different series to suit diverse workload requirements better."

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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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Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

18%

Retailer

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University

Educational Organization

Media Company

Comms Service Provider

Government

Insurance Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Healthcare Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Pharma/Biotech Company

Construction Company

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

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Non Profit

Wellness & Fitness Company

Wholesaler/Distributor

Hospitality Company

Legal Firm

Logistics Company

Consumer Goods 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.