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    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AAmazon 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

    wasmCloud

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AwasmCloud is a dynamic, elastically scalable WebAssembly host runtime for securely connecting actors and capability providers, from Cosmonic headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Users can build functions and services in WebAssembly and run them anywhere. Functions and services can be built in the language desired and run securely, everywhere. wasmCloud is available free and open source.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)wasmCloud
    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)wasmCloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)wasmCloud
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    No answer on this topic
    Cosmonic
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    25 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    26 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    22 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    26 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)wasmCloud
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and wasmCloud
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    8.7
    27 Ratings
    5% above category average
    wasmCloud
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.425 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.226 Ratings7.66 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.725 Ratings7.96 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates8.726 Ratings5.55 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.125 Ratings7.55 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.525 Ratings7.74 Ratings
    Operating system support8.326 Ratings8.45 Ratings
    Security controls8.526 Ratings7.96 Ratings
    Automation8.116 Ratings7.54 Ratings
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    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)wasmCloud
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)wasmCloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (73 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (11 ratings)
    7.4
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)wasmCloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    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
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    Cosmonic
    If you want to start pivoting your legacy code into a serverless paradigm this is the platform to target. If you want to start moving away from walled gardens and back into a space where code isn't centralized, costs can be offset by utilizing customer or edge hardware this is the platform to focus on. If you want a model that will scale well past many of the existing serverless frameworks, that won't get caught up in the security weaknesses of current paradigms this is what you need to invest in. If you want modern code to interact with legacy code in a safe way that doesn't expose vulnerabilities you can't patch against wasmCloud is awesome. If you want to write simple code that can jump from cloud to cloud to the user or edge node check it out!
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Huge Diverse range of machine shapes are available which cater to our demand.
    • Ability to combine the machines and integrate them with any other service in AWS (Ex: RDS, S3)
    • Handling performance and scalability using auto-scaling, ELB configuration and high performance machine shapes.
    Incentivized
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    Cosmonic
    • Host density of workloads
    • Streamlined security approach to writing code and reducing bloat
    • Interoperability of modules written in different languages
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • The choices on AMIs, instance types and additional configuration can be overwhelming for any non-DevOps person.
    • The pricing information should be more clear (than only providing the hourly cost) when launching the instance. AWS DynamoDB gives an estimated monthly cost when creating tables, and I would love to see similar cost estimation showing on EC2 instances individually, as not all developers gets access to the actual bills.
    • The term for reserving instances are at least 12 months. With instance types changing so fast and better instances coming out every other day, it's really hard to commit to an existing instance type for 1 or more years at a time.
    Incentivized
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    Cosmonic
    • Simplified open-source model for on-boarding devs, i.e. bare host no elixir/GUI
    • Home-labbers guide to wasmCloud
    • Spark more community involvement for capability providers
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    You an start using EC2 instances immediately, is so easy and intuitive to start using them, EC2 has wizard to create the EC2 instances in the web browser or if you are code savvy you can create them with simple line in the CLI or using an SDK. Once you are comfortable using EC2, you can even automate the process.
    Incentivized
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    Cosmonic
    wasmCloud is still in the early stages of development but the product is rapidly evolving and stabilizing and I feel it will be a preferred way of deploying and managing remote, distributed applications in the future.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    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
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    Cosmonic
    The core team is extremely responsive in their provided channels. From slack to github issues, there is never a long wait for feedback or guidance.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    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 integration with other AWS services since they're all in the same cloud platform.
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    Cosmonic
    No answers on this topic
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Cosmonic
    Have not made a purchase yet as we are still in the POC stage.
    Incentivized
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    Professional Services
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Cosmonic
    The team is incredibly helpful and informative about the product - I have not needed to use their professional services thus far.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • It reduced the need for heavy on-premises instances. Also, it completely eliminates maintenance of the machine. Their SLA criteria are also matching business needs. Overall IAAS is the best option when information is not so crucial to post on the cloud.
    • It makes both horizontal and vertical scaling really easy. This keeps your infrastructure up and running even while you are increasing the capacity or facing more traffic. This leads to having better customer satisfaction.
    • If you do not choose your instance type suitable for your business, it may incur lots of extra costs.
    Incentivized
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    Cosmonic
    • WasmCloud has massively simplified the required ops expertise needed to run modern software.
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