Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) vs. Azure Stack Hub

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Azure Stack Hub

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems.	$0.01 per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis
Azure Stack Hub	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	Part of the Azure Stack portfolio, Azure Stack Hub broadens Azure to let users run apps in an on-premises environment and deliver Azure services in a business's own datacenter. As organizations race to digitally transform, many are finding they can move faster by using public cloud services to build on modern architectures and refresh legacy apps. Many workloads, however, must remain on-premises—for example, due to technological and regulatory obstacles.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Azure Stack Hub

Editions & Modules

Data Transfer: $0.00 - $0.09
per GB
On-Demand: $0.0042 - $6.528
per Hour
EBS-Optimized Instances: $0.005
per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis
Carrier IP Addresses: $0.005 - $0.10
T4g Instances: $0.04
per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES
T2, T3 Instances: $0.05 ($0.096)
per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES (Windows)

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Azure Stack Hub
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Azure Stack Hub
Considered Both Products	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) integrates seamlessly with other AWS services, including S3 and Cloudfront, to accelerate content delivery and SNS to manage notifications. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) gives better performance for the instance of similar price range, more options for the instance type with good mix of vcpu and memory, administrator finds it easier to manage. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Azure VM Builder offers good service, but the options are quite limited (Too much inclined to Windows as it is prepared by Microsoft). EC2 image building capabilities are the best in the market, and offer Windows, Linux (CentOS, rh2, debian, ubuntu), along with other distros, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Using Digital Ocean's droplets was much easier and faster to set up and test, but we needed very specific and custom configurations and hardware for our use case, so we went ahead with using Amazon's EC2 instances. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) More reliable and flexible in options. Incentivized Helpful? Iván García Consultant Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) EC2 is easier and more intuitive to use than the same product from other Cloud providers, AWS has been improving on EC2 since its conception in 2006 while the other cloud providers are only following the steps of AWS without much innovation. AWS has been the leader on Cloud … Incentivized Helpful? 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Found Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to be the most recommended … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon EC2 is super flexible compared to the PaaS offerings like Heroku Platform and Google App Engine since with Amazon EC2, we have access to the terminal. In terms of pricing, it's basically just the same as Google Compute Engine. The deciding factor is Amazon EC2's native … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) I did not select AWS EC2 as my final choice of infrastructure. I picked Linode. Linode, Digital Ocean, AWS EC2 all provide the VPS infrastructure we need. But because I'm a small company, the cost is very important. I also didn't need the other AWS features. I also want to make … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Weisel Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) We tried a few other competitors on the web hosting side of our company and ultimately decided to go with AWS EC2 instances. AWS had the most flexibility, the most choices for different types of instances, a variety of Operating Systems, an incredible infrastructure across … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) The availability of AWS startup credits led my choice of AWS EC2. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) AWS EC2 is fully interfaced with the Amazon Web Services platform and Google compute engine fits in more with Google. While either provider would have been fine, we are pretty much all built on top of AWS at this point barring some clients. It just flowed easier. Incentivized Helpful? Mark Freeman, MBA Director of Enterprise IT Architectures Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Lambda great when serverless compute will work Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon was the first one in the market to provide virtual machines in the cloud and certainly gained a lot of popularity before the rest even came to the picture. The different service providers are quite mutually exclusive, and one cannot easily use more than one at the same … Incentivized Helpful? Apurv Doshi Senior Solutions Architect Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) EC2 has better modes, a variety of instances and UI support as compare to GCE. GCE is completely command driven. As compared to it EC2 provides a better user interface. Incentivized Helpful? PP Patrick Plaisance CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) We have been using EC2 for so much longer, that even though we use Azure's other features and services more then the equivalent AWS features and services, we don't usually go for Azure's VM offerings first over EC2. I guess that that means this recommendation is mostly based … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambda and Amazon Relational Database Service Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Samaroo Senior Software Engineer Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon EC2 is the best cloud solution on the market. It has very competitive prices and an incredible number of services available for use. The billing is very efficient and details. EC2 is a great option for individuals, small groups, and large companies. As the needs of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon's been leading the way in the past few years in cloud computing and have easily become a name we can trust. When we looked at options, nothing compared to EC2 when you looked at the scalability and flexibility of the product. For the needs we were trying to meet, these … Incentivized Helpful? FT Frank Troglauer Programmer and IT Lead Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) They are the same thing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) EC2 is a much more advantageous compared with the competitors because it has a much better console, configuration, auto-scalability, uptime, and many other features that are way better than other services I have seen so far. It also provides great backup services integrated … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) In our eyes, Amazon has become the de-facto cloud provider. We have searched for other options, but none of them compare when you take documentation, training, support, ease of use all into account. Of all the cloud environments that our admins use daily, AWS is by far the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) All the services above can be built on a server vs using a service. It allows teams that have more breadth of development to dive deep into the implementation and tailor the performance based on the needs they have specifically. In addition, we can tear down failed experiments … Incentivized Helpful?	Azure Stack Hub No answer on this topic

Features

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Azure Stack Hub

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) 8.7 Ratings 5% above category average	Azure Stack Hub - Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	9.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	9.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	9.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	8.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Monitoring tools	8.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Operating system support	8.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Security controls	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automation	8.10 Ratings	00 Ratings

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	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Azure Stack Hub
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User Ratings
	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Azure Stack Hub
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Azure Stack Hub
Likelihood to Recommend	Suitable for companies that are looking for performance at a competitive price, flexibility to switch instance type even with RI, flexibility to add-on IOPS, option to lower running cost with the regular introduction of new instance type that comes with higher performance but at a lower cost. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	A great variety of choices in Amazon Machine Image (AMI) types. Users can select a more basic type to run generic workloads, but also have the choice to pick an AMI pre-installed with specific services in the AWS Marketplace. The range of instance types can support the usage from a student's exploration (inexpensive general-purpose nano instances) to an enterprise's most intense workloads (memory or storage-optimized instances with terabytes of memory and ultra-fast network connection). The pricing options, from regular instances, reserved instances to spot instances allow users to get the job done and make smart choices about how much they want to pay and when they want to pay. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	This service is a bit difficult to consume. New users need a big learning curve to use this service effectively. UI for EC2 service is a little complex and at many places, it misses detailed explanation. Sometimes it takes too long to create images of EC2 instances. This keeps your EC2 up for that extra time. When instances are heavy, it penalizes a lot of money. Incentivized Apurv Doshi Senior Solutions Architect Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	It's easy and straightforward for a technical person to use it via SSH, but when working in cross-functional teams, using Amazon's web console is difficult for this particular service. Most modern cloud providers provide a more seamless user interface to interact with their cloud machines, and the same should have been the case with EC2. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	AWS's support is good overall. Not outstanding, but better than average. We have had very little reason to engage with AWS support but in our limited experience, the staff has been knowledgeable, timely and helpful. The only negative is actually initiating a service request can be a bit of a pain. Incentivized PP Patrick Plaisance CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Azure VM Builder offers good service, but the options are quite limited (Too much inclined to Windows as it is prepared by Microsoft). EC2 image building capabilities are the best in the market, and offer Windows, Linux (CentOS, rh2, debian, ubuntu), along with other distros, which helps customers choose according to their needs. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	With EC2 you pay only when is Running, so you can save up to 75% on Dev environments which are running only on office hours You have several ways to pay for EC2, with EC2 Reserved Instances you pay with a discount of up to 72% if you make a commitment of using them from 1 or 3 years With EC2 spot you can use spare AWS EC2 capacity with a discount of up to 90%, your workload must be interrupt tolerant as your EC2 could be reclaim by AWS and the EC2 terminated Incentivized Iván García Consultant Read full review	No answers on this topic
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