Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

“One year free tier subscription, which makes it very cost effective for training the new resources. … Return on investment is 100%, and it's less than our in-house infrastructure maintenance cost.”

“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...”

“Cost effective and easy to understand billing/cost analysis Many many tools and documentation available for use. … For one website or one app, I don't think EC2 would be worth the knowledge and financial.”

“Positive ROI on opex costs Reserved instance pricing locks you in for 1-3 years, so you have to be careful to plan your capacity when you do this Overall we are able to scale our applications on... … As far as pricing goes, EC2 can be cheaper depending on when rate cuts are made.”

“Due to the price, it is most cost effective for scenarios where you do not need constant processing, because if you work out the math it is far cheaper to go with a bare metal solution.”

“Reason for us choosing GCE was due to:

1. Ability to define custom compute units in GCE.
2. More transparent pricing due to automatic usage discounts.
3. Less expensive for equal... … Tricky to figure out exact cost of infrastructure due to so many pricing levels (based on sustained usage).”

“Rightsizing the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances used by eks cluster also helped with cost savings The use of spot instances for various use cases also reduced the cost.”

“I found Linode to provide the best cost/dollar value.”

“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...”

“Most users don't understand the pricing model and miss out on cost savings. … Reserved instances allow for cost savings for instances that you plan on having running all of the time.”

“The free tier is excellent for getting your feet wet and understanding/testing EC2 without high cost.”