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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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- 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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$0.00 - $0.09
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$0.0042 - $6.528
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$0.005
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per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis
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- No setup fee
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- 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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Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
- Reduces cost of managing on-premise infrastructure.
- Easy deployment on cloud.
- Easy scaling up to handle traffic.
May 11, 2023
EC2 - All in one solution
- organisations can easily scale up or down in response to their demands
- number of services including networking, storage and security
- access to dependable, secure, and affordable cloud computing resources
April 15, 2022
Great cloud service for flexible compute workloads
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- We're able to self-host open-source apps for just the price of a t3.micro instance, instead of paying for expensive per-user SaaS licenses.
- Amazon EC2 saves us time from planning how many resources to provision since we can always resize our EC2 instances.
- Amazon EC2's monitoring features also save us time when troubleshooting issues.
- Cost is very high for high performance servers.
November 24, 2021
EC2 is expensive - expect cost overruns - but works as advertised
- Expensive to use.
- Cost over-run.
- Efficient provisioning of infrastructure.
November 19, 2021
Highly Recommend AWS's EC2 Instances
- Saved us money on quickly outdated servers
- Clear and concise billing so we understand our bill each month
- Incredible and flexible service plans
- Ability to scale when needed both up and down
- Ability to setup new instances quickly
- Is not too costly. The reason many choose Cloud-based solutions is because of costs, and this was a great thing to have.
- EC2 does work fine and best return on investment.
April 28, 2021
EC2 for Startups
- Quick prototype deployment and testing leading to lower application production deployment time.
- High availability.
- Improved security with AWS security groups.
November 25, 2019
The best and most scalable cloud infrastructure in the entire world!
- lower TCO
- improved access and durability of infrastructure
- Lower time to deploy applications
- High availability of various regions for software deployment
November 13, 2019
My wonderful EC2 Experience
- Positive: reduced operating costs
- Positive: easier setup
- Positive: easier monitoring
October 31, 2019
Maximum flexibility. Competitive pricing. Great support.
- EC2 is good for spinning up a cluster in an instant to get a proof of concept going. It reduced that time where developers have to ask DevOps to support this type of tasks.
- Startups can use EC2 instances to focus on scaling business without worrying about computing or storage resources.
- Companies should be aware of their bills on EC2 and ensure that unused instances get terminated in time, otherwise the bill can potentially get expensive.
October 25, 2019
EC2 - Excellent Cloud Computing Service
- 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.
October 21, 2019
The de facto standard cloud VM host
- Positive: cost savings by deploying small servers via EC2 vs expense of an on-premise server.
- Positive: cost savings by being able to spin up virtual testing labs on the fly.
October 21, 2019
EC2 is my First choice for cloud
- EC2 is most cost-effective as it has different categories like On-demand, reserved and scheduled instances
October 18, 2019
Amazon EC2 - Best Cloud Hosting Provider on the market
- Cost savings on cheap options for server hosting.
- Save time by making it very easy to setup and manage servers.
- Amazon EC2 is trusted and provides great security options. Safe and secure platform is a must have for enterprise software customers.
- At first we spent a little more than we had the previous year on server space because we had over estimated, but we immediately were able to recoup that money with their pay for what you use model.
- In the end we are doing so much more than we were 4 years ago because of the hours and hours saved from paperwork and budgeting everytime a new project commences or ends and server needs change.
- As stated earlier in my review it saves us money by being able to change instance types/sizes at will, so your not locked in and don't have to physically move files to a different server.
- EC2 is an expensive service when you increase the volume of your instance. But still, it has so many volume choices suitable for any level of project.
- The learning curve is high, and the technical documentation is not enough at all. AWS should focus on documentation more.
- The configuration process can be painful sometimes if you want to fine tune your instances.
July 07, 2019
A Great Choice
- Time saved: We have saved thousands of man hours by the ease of AWS EC2.
- Support Costs: Since Amazon has done a good job of providing documentation, you should be able to get to an answer yourself, without having to engage support, which can be costly.
- Operating Costs: The cost and increased liability of owning hardware is now almost all gone for us.
June 21, 2019
EC2: Game changer
- It's so easy to provision that sometimes we leave VMs on that we should power down.
- Allows us to quickly go to market with ideas with in hours to days of inception.
- Allows great flexibility in the types of images we can spin up.
April 29, 2019
EC2 for scalable web apps
- We were able to use the trial version for EC2 hosting at a very cheap rate. After evaluation when we realized it met our requirements we got the instances deployed for our web apps. Apart from the initial learning curve, we think this was the right approach for us since it is extremely reliable with an amazing up-time.
April 08, 2019
EC2- Computing on demand
- Highly scalable and available infrastructure keeps our apps up longer for less.
- Confusing UI and infrastructure setup has cost us significant time and resources trying to figure out why a specific resource isn't working as intended.
February 22, 2019
Fully featured cloud containers
- It can be very easy to overspend and forget about running instances.
- It can also be very easy to overspend by making instances too large.
- The speed of deployment has been a huge improvement.
January 02, 2019
AWS EC2: Best IaaS Solution on the Market
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- Auto-scaling, in particular, has helped us to support our users at the busiest times, while not being required to maintain the infrastructure to do so all the time.