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What is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)?
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…
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Popular Features
- Pre-configured templates (17)9.595%
- Dynamic scaling (17)9.393%
- Elastic load balancing (17)9.292%
- Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime (17)8.686%
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Data Transfer
$0.00 - $0.09
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per GB
On-Demand
$0.0042 - $6.528
Cloud
per Hour
EBS-Optimized Instances
$0.005
Cloud
per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis
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- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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What is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)?
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.
Key Features
Bare metal instances
Amazon EC2 Fleet (fleet management)
Pause and resume instances
GPU compute instances
GPU graphics instances
High I/O instances
Dense HDD storage instances
Optimized CPU configurations
Flexible storage options
Pay-as-you-go pricing
Place instances in multiple locations
Elastic IP addresses
Auto-scale capacity up or down
HPC clusters
Elastic Fabric Adapter
Available on AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Time Sync Service
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
Reviewers rate Pre-defined machine images highest, with a score of 9.8.
The most common users of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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March 14, 2017
EC2 great for legacy, meh for everything else.
We ended up not selecting EC2, we chose Google Compute Engine instead. Reason for us choosing GCE was due to:
- Ability to define custom compute units in GCE.
- More transparent pricing due to automatic usage discounts.
- Less expensive for equal compute unit classes.
- Better UX of the administration and console.
August 30, 2016
Amazon EC2
EC2 is the standard for flexibility, reliability, user experience, and scalability. It could compare to something like other external servers that only provide a command line option to access. Amazon allows for a dashboard to control user access, so security is rarely a problem. In addition, you have access to Amazon's full suite of products for integration which makes it easy to add new features as your company grows.
August 30, 2016
AWS EC2 for Data Science
- AWS EMR
For Hadoop/Spark jobs, we use AWS EMR. We evaluated this vs. just using EC2 and installing the necessary software on it ourselves. We went with EMR to ensure consistent builds, although it is slightly more expensive.
When it comes to AWS EC2, the technical aspects are about equal to many of the other cloud services, but where AWS EC2 shines at is its management, and growth capabilities. You can start your web based business using AWS for literally zero start-up costs: you use the same Amazon account you use to order office supplies and your laptops, click a button, and start renting servers that only cost what you ACTUALLY use, which is really revolutionary for the data industry.