AWS Batch vs Amazon EC2 comparison

Amazon EC2 and AWS Batch are both solutions in the Compute Service category. Amazon EC2 is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.8, while AWS Batch is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.0. Amazon EC2 holds a 6.4% mindshare in CS, compared to AWS Batch’s 19.7% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Amazon EC2 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of AWS Batch users who would recommend it.

Amazon EC2

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98% willing to recommend

AWS Batch

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and AWS Batch based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon EC2

Ranking in Compute Service

5th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

AWS Batch

Ranking in Compute Service

6th

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Compute Service category, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 is 6.4%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AWS Batch is 19.7%, down from 20.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Prapoj Chipat

Assistant Director at True Corp. PCL.

You only pay for what you use, and you can scale up or scale down without any issues; has good stability and connectivity

My company uses AWS products, including cloud services. Amazon EC2 is being used within the company as well. My company has about ten thousand employees that use Amazon EC2 because everybody connects to the internet. For example, employees use the mail service from the console and Outlook service on the cloud. Everyone uses the internet within the company, so that means Amazon EC2 is being used as well, especially in this COVID situation. Right now, employees use more applications such as streaming and video services which require more connectivity and cloud capacity, so there's a plan to increase usage for Amazon EC2. In terms of how much staff is required for the deployment and maintenance of Amazon EC2, I'm not quite sure how much technical staff my company has because some of the technical staff was outsourced. There's no permanent IT staff in the office. I'm recommending Amazon EC2 to other people because it's a critical product that has more reliability. It has good quality, and it also has many features, so if the features support your use cases, then Amazon EC2 would be a good product for you. My rating for Amazon EC2 is nine out of ten.

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Larry Singh

Head of Bioinformatics at Paratus Sciences

User-friendly, good customization and offers exceptional scalability, allowing users to run jobs ranging from 32 cores to over 2,000 cores

The main drawback to using AWS Batch would be the cost. It will be more expensive in some cases than using an HPC. It's more amenable to cases where you have spot requirements. So, for instance, you don't exactly know how much compute resources you'll need and when you'll need them. So it's much better for that flexibility. But if you're going to be running jobs consistently and using the compute cluster consistently for a lot of time, and it's not going to have a lot of downtime, then the HPC system might be a better alternative. So, really, it boils down to cost versus usage trade-offs. It's going to be more expensive for a lot of people. In future releases, I would like to see anything that could help make it easier to set up your initial system. And besides improving the GUI a little bit, the interface to it, making it a little bit more descriptive and having more information at your fingertips, so if you could point to the help of what the different features are, you can get quick access to that. That might help. With most of the AWS services, the difficulty really is getting information and knowledge about the system and seeing examples. So, seeing examples of how it's being used under multiple use cases would be the best way to become familiar with it. And some of that would just come with experience. You have to just use it and play with it. But in terms of the system itself, it's not that difficult to set up or use.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I use it for NextCloud and for developer purposes."

"Configuration can be changed at any time and it's very scalable."

"EC2 has the typical advantages of using the cloud. It's easy to provision and set up."

"The product is very mature and organized."

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

"The product is easy and quick to set up."

"My company uses the tool for cloud monitoring. We have a production, staging, deployment, and testing environment in AWS. However, we do not use the managed service of AWS yet. My team uses the required parameters for security like VPC, firewall, gates of security as well as the external layer of the app."

"I can quickly create a VM instance with just one click."

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"AWS Batch manages the execution of computing workload, including job scheduling, provisioning, and scaling."

"There is one other feature in confirmation or call confirmation where you can have templates of what you want to do and just modify those to customize it to your needs. And these templates basically make it a lot easier for you to get started."

"AWS Batch's deployment was easy."

"We can easily integrate AWS container images into the product."

Cons

"The initial deployment was complex."

"The tool’s stability could be better."

"One of the challenges is the AMI upgrades."

"The support could be more responsive."

"We're expecting to have Graviton instances. Graviton means it's not internal, it's a low-cost instance. At present time, Graviton is not supported for a few packages."

"Pricing-wise, it is a bit high."

"They can build automatic features for ENSS or network drive. They have the Control-M feature. Similarly, they should have a feature for the network drive that can be mapped. I have not seen such a feature. They have a lot of products but those are quite costly. There is no cheaper option available for the EC2 instance for syncing two drives. If these features are available, it would be good."

"Lacks sufficient tools to help users minimize their costs."

More Amazon EC2 cons

"The solution should include better and seamless integration with other AWS services, like Amazon S3 data storage and EC2 compute resources."

"The main drawback to using AWS Batch would be the cost. It will be more expensive in some cases than using an HPC. It's more amenable to cases where you have spot requirements."

"When we run a lot of batch jobs, the UI must show the history."

"AWS Batch needs to improve its documentation."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has helped to reduce costs with infrastructure."

"We are using a pay-as-you-go model."

"You pay as you use it."

"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."

"There is a license required to use this solution and we pay on a monthly basis."

"When we did the deployment of Amazon EC2 we found it to be less expensive than other solutions."

"The licensing of Amazon EC2 is expensive. Microsoft Windows Servers are expensive to license."

"Amazon EC2 is a very expensive solution."

More Amazon EC2 pricing and cost advice

"AWS Batch's pricing is good."

"The pricing is very fair."

"AWS Batch is a cheap solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon EC2?

The scalability and elasticity are helpful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EC2?

The pricing of EC2 can vary depending on workloads. It can be expensive for high workloads but more cost-effective for smaller applications. AWS provides various services at competitive pricing, ma...

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What needs improvement with Amazon EC2?

An area needing improvement is the time limitations when accessing EC2 instances. When accessing the server, sometimes PeerSpot can fail, making it difficult to access multiple servers simultaneous...

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Which is better, AWS Lambda or Batch?

AWS Lambda is a serverless solution. It doesn’t require any infrastructure, which allows for cost savings. There is no setup process to deal with, as the entire solution is in the cloud. If you use...

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What do you like most about AWS Batch?

AWS Batch manages the execution of computing workload, including job scheduling, provisioning, and scaling.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Batch?

AWS Batch is a cheap solution.

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Also Known As

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2

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Overview

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.

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.

AWS Batch enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. AWS Batch dynamically provisions the optimal quantity and type of compute resources (e.g., CPU or memory optimized instances) based on the volume and specific resource requirements of the batch jobs submitted. With AWS Batch, there is no need to install and manage batch computing software or server clusters that you use to run your jobs, allowing you to focus on analyzing results and solving problems. AWS Batch plans, schedules, and executes your batch computing workloads across the full range of AWS compute services and features, such as Amazon EC2 and Spot Instances.

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