Amazon EC2 Reviews

We use Amazon EC2 for Windows and Linux systems. Additionally, we use it for UAT and load balancing.

Amazon EC2 could improve by having integration with other cloud systems, such as Azure, and Google Cloud which would be good. Additionally, having integration with on-premise systems would be appreciated.

Most of the clients are worried about getting completely dependent on a cloud provider. For example, if you develop everything using Amazon AWS services, then you get stuck with them, that's a worry today. There are people who are asking for cloud-agnostic implementation or services.

I have been using Amazon EC2 for approximately four years.

Amazon EC2 is stable.

The scalability of Amazon EC2 is good. However, the stability can depend on what service I am using.

The support is very good, they are customer friendly and use case-based experience.

I rate the support from Amazon EC2 a four out of five.

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The initial setup of Amazon EC2  it's not straightforward. You need an Amazon AWS engineer to use it because there is a steep learning curve. It's not very difficult to find someone with AWS skillsets. 

After four years of use if we want to log and create an EC2 instance it is very easy. Once you have a solution architect or you have an Amzon AWS engineer on your team, it's easier to do.

I would recommend this solution to others and Azure. This is a fantastic solution, it provides the basic requirement for any cloud. They make available computing space or a server to use for customers.

I rate Amazon EC2 an eight out of ten.

We use Amazon EC2 for our virtual machines. For example, if a client wants thier website to work with WordPress, we can use EC2 to spin up a virtual machine and then run WordPress in that environment.

The flexibility of the security features is what is interesting.

The only issue with EC2 is that it makes it difficult to install an LLS certificate on your WordPress website that you have deployed inside that virtual machine. That becomes complicated. S3 is straightforward. But when you're hosting with EC2 then it becomes a problem.

I would like to see more user-friendly WordPress licensing. I am referring to WordPress LLS certificates. WordPress-hosted websites, otherwise, are very stable because the RDP never has these issues. 

I am a software developer, I also use it to host my own application service. In our company, we also create systems. I use it to run other servers inside an EC2 virtual machine. It's accessible, and it is stable.

I have been working with Amazon EC2 for three years.

Amazon EC2 is very stable. I have no issues with the stability of Amazon EC2.

Amazon EC2 is a scalable solution.

We have two Amazon EC2 clients.

I have never had to use technical support for Amazon Web Services in general.

I am a consultant on all of the services that I have listed. F3, EC2, WorkMail. Obviously, F3 goes with Route 53.

I have been working with all of the products listed for three years.

I am starting from scratch with support and everything.

WorkMail is a bit expensive per user. That is something they must correct.

They provide excellent service, but it is too expensive for South Africans. We are losing clients because the price my clients pay for email alone is nearly equal to the price they pay for an entire Microsoft Office license, which includes email.

Where they will have Microsoft Word and other productivity tools, as well as email. And you will pay nearly that much for an email with WorkMail. It's far too costly. That is unaffordable.

The initial setup is straightforward.

It works immediately. It's fast.

You pay as you use it.

I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.

I would rate Amazon EC2 a seven out of ten.

I mainly use EC2 for hosting our application as well as some of the user data caching mechanism and mailing services.

EC2 could be improved with easier migration.

I've been using EC2 for around eighteen months.

I'm satisfied with the stability of EC2.

EC2 is scalable.

Amazon's technical support is great, we have no issues with it.

The initial setup wa straightforward and took around two weeks before configuration.

EC2 is secure and stable, and we have no complaints about it on AWS. However, Microsoft is more helpful with our go-to-market strategy, which motivates us to use Azure more than EC2. I would rate EC2 as ten out of ten.

We have a lot of use cases. Some of our customers have deployed their SIEM solutions on EC2 instances. Our company has also deployed a couple of business applications on EC2 instances.

The product is very mature and organized. I haven't had any issues with any of the AWS services.

The GUI used to deploy EC2 must be improved. Azure’s GUI is more guided compared to EC2’s GUI.

I have been using the solution for five to six years.

If I buy only one EC2 instance with fewer resources but use it for many resources without putting it in the Auto Scaling group, the tool will not be stable. If I deploy the solution according to AWS's best practices and recommendations, it will be scalable. If I deploy it under Load Balancing or Auto Scaling, it will automatically go up and down as per the demand, and we have to pay for only what we use. I rate the stability a nine out of ten.

The product is very scalable. The scalability depends on the deployment architecture. Our clients who have big infrastructures are using the product. They have multiple accounts. My own organization is also using the solution. We are planning to increase the usage.

The support is very quick. Everything is guided pretty well. AWS’s support is always very good.

The initial setup is easy. The product is cloud-based. If I am buying the solution for many CPUs, it might take two to three hours. It will take four to five hours if I'm deploying with fewer resources.

The deployment process is pretty simple. We can go to the EC2 dashboard and create an instance if we have an AWS account subscription. The product would guide us with the help of dropdowns. It will ask us how many resources we want, how much storage we want, which security group we want to integrate, and what kind of Access Control we want to integrate. There’ll be a lot of questions, and we just need to select the answers.

EC2 is like a virtual machine. It doesn’t require a whole team for deployment. The number of people required for deployment depends on the complexity of the deployment.

We need to pay a monthly license fee for the product. The pricing also depends on the type of instance we use. Reserved Instances are dedicated to a single user and cost more. If we use Spot Instances, we must pay for what we use. It will be added to our monthly bill. It is not an expensive solution.

Azure uses Sentinel, which is dedicated to security information and event management. However, AWS does not have a centralized solution for SIEM. AWS is using security hubs like GuardDuty, but it is for different purposes. We have to log in to these dashboards separately. AWS needs to have a centralized SIEM solution.

People who want to use the product must consider the future predictability and decide whether they need a single EC2 instance or a Load Balancing or Auto Scaling infrastructure deployment and deploy accordingly.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

We are using Amazon EC2 for computing.

The most valuable features of Amazon EC2 are content delivery and adaptability.

I have been using Amazon EC2 for approximately two months.

Amazon EC2 could improve the stability.

The scalability of Amazon EC2 is good.

I have not used technical support from Amazon EC2.

I did not use other solutions prior to using Amazon EC2.

I am using the tier three Amazon service. I am not going to use another solution other than Amazon EC2 because here in Pakistan there are some payment issues for solutions abroad.

I rate Amazon EC2 a nine out of ten.

We had a client which has a legacy application that wanted to move to the cloud without a cloud-native solution. What they did was they moved to Amazon EC2 and asked for virtual machines. They had an Oracle database and licenses, they were all provided by the client, and then they all moved to the Amazon EC2 environment.

Amazon EC2's most valuable feature I have heard from clients is easy provisioning. Provisioning is very quick and easy.

Amazon EC2 could improve by reducing the price.

I have been using Amazon EC2 for approximately two years.

Amazon EC2 is stable.

The scalability of Amazon EC2 is good.

Our client was a large company with approximately 1,000 using the solution.

The support from Amazon EC2 is good. 

The ROI is similar to an on-premise version of my client's operations.

The clients have found the billing of Amazon EC2 good, but the price could be less high. There is a monthly subscription to use the solution.

We have difficulty convincing potential clients of the benefits of using Amazon EC2, from their on-premise setup, when the cost is similar. They don't see the benefits. We face a lot of issues convincing them

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Amazon EC2 an eight out of ten.

We use EC2 to configure the Kubernetes environment clusters and to reconfigure Kubernetes by applications and microservices.

The most valuable feature is EC2 is scalable, so when you want to move to market, you don't need to wait until your provision is fast, you can just go and provision it and then easily install your application. We can also size the instances correctly based on our requirements, so for example, there are multiple instance types and families, and we can choose according to the requirement, which is very convenient.

The ease of migrating applications could be improved.

I've been using EC2 for more than three years.

EC2 is stable, but it depends on the architecture - if you don't protect it with other control and security mechanisms, it'll be cumbersome.

EC2 is scalable, you can just go and provision it and then easily install your application. 

Normally when we have operations issues, we escalate tickets to the support team, and they've always responded on time.

The amount of time it takes to install depends on how you configure and how many instances of EC2 you want.

We have a monthly primary account that pays for the licensing, with multiple accounts below it. So whenever we want to have a new solution, we create a new account under the paying account.

I would give this solution a rating of eight out of ten.

We're primarily using the solution for deploying our application.

We like that the cloud features are manageable. We don't need to do anything to manage them.

We don't have to worry about scalability issues or maintenance or security. It's all taken care of.

It's a powerful product, and we can do everything in just a few clicks. 

They could try to improve everything incrementally. They're working on improvements all the time. It would be ideal if they could continue to refine the product so there were fewer and fewer things customers would have to worry about. They could improve their own people so that things like security continue to get better and better. 

They could improve their images. They're working on doing that now. 

The solution is pretty expensive.

I've been using the solution in my current project. It's been more than six months. 

It's a stable product. There are no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze it is reliable. 

Most of the cases are using Amazon EC2 in our production deployment, so maybe most of the people are using Amazon EC2 with other features for containers. There are about 90 people on the product right now.

I've never dealt with support. If someone needs to reach out to support, it would be my supervisor, not me. Therefore, I can't speak to how helpful they would be. 

We go right to Amazon and create a machine. It takes ten to 20 minutes, so the process is pretty fast in terms of setting up. 

The cost varies from machine to machine. When we create a machine, they estimate how much it will cost. It is more expensive than other products.

We're an Amazon partner. 

I'm not sure which version of the solution I'm on. 

If a new user wants to use Amazon EC2 for their professional work or their deployments, then they need to think about the cost. The cost of the cloud is a bit higher compared to other things. They need to also consider the settings and functionality in Amazon EC2. They really need to look at their use case and scenario. However, it is something worth trying for testing purposes.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. It's made out life easier. We don't have to worry about scalability or maintenance any longer. It also offers good load balancing and other kinds of features.