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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Overview

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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Recent Reviews

EC2 for Startups

9 out of 10
April 28, 2021
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EC2 is easy to get started with there are a lot of online resources for help. We use it to serve our online Django-based Rest and Graph …
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Popular Features

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  • Pre-configured templates (17)
    9.5
    95%
  • Dynamic scaling (17)
    9.3
    93%
  • Elastic load balancing (17)
    9.2
    92%
  • Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime (17)
    8.6
    86%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Verified User
Employee in Research & Development
Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees
Neel Shah | TrustRadius Reviewer
Neel Shah
Head Android
engineerHUB (E-Learning, 201-500 employees)
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Pricing

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Data Transfer

$0.00 - $0.09

Cloud
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

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Training @ VICTORYSOST

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Features

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

IaaS provides the basic building blocks for an IT infrastructure like servers, storage, and networking, in an on-demand model over the Internet

9.1
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

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 TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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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Reviews and Ratings

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July 10, 2017

AWS EC2 best in cloud computing era, quick scalable and economical

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
E-Learning Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Amazon Elastic Cloud (EC2) for our web applications and analytics work. Right now we have implemented it in few departments only but we are planning to implement it across the organization. EC2 is very helpful in providing infrastructure support for a growing business. Earlier we were relying on our in-house infrastructure team, but it's tough to grow infrastructure with your business growth. For a scalable infrastructure we decided to move to the cloud, and after considering many factors we find that AWS EC2 is best for our requirements.
Pros and Cons
  • One year free tier subscription, which makes it very cost effective for training the new resources.
  • Large communities with thousands of machines having preinstalled software as per need.
  • AWS EC2 has a very competitive pricing scheme with on-demand, spot instances plan and reserved instances.
  • Sharing AMI is the one of best features. You can share your machine image with another user.
  • Although AWS EC2 is best in the market, in addition, they could provide more robust monitoring tools for EC2 resources.
  • They don't have the facility to block IPs for inbound traffic. Although this can be achieved by carefully allowing the inbound traffic. But adding the flexibility to block IPs or exclude some IPs from inbound would be great.
  • They need to provide one dashboard where they could show the list of all the resources from a region. Right now a user needs to select a particular region to check the resources being used.
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS Elastic Compute Cloud is one of the best cloud computing technologies among all their competitors whether its Azure or Google. AWS EC2 is available with very competitive pricing and based on the wide market it’s very easy to get AWS technical experts. And as it has much more functionality along with EC2 like S3 RDS route53, this makes it a one stop for all infrastructure needs.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Feature Ratings
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • Return on investment is 100%, and it's less than our in-house infrastructure maintenance cost.
  • Best thing I will say about the return on investment is its scalability; we can handle any amount of traffic in few clicks.
Alternatives Considered
The other big players standing against AWS EC2 are Azure, Google Cloud, and Salesforce, but still, they are growing in their field and stand far behind where EC2 is today. Other cloud services providers don't have a presence all across geography, which will cause a delay when your application is being accessed somewhere like South Asia. Support provided AWS EC2 is best in its class.
Other Software Used
Easy Tasks
  • Security
  • Creating AMI, Duplicating machine
Difficult Tasks
  • While creating AMI, original machines get hung up for minutes, so you need to start one machine in advance before creating AMI.
Usability
10
Best in its class.
Easy to implement.
Big community for support.
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