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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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- Free/Freemium Version
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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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September 15, 2018
Scale up with EC2!
- Faster deployments - allowing for hotfixes and features to get deployed faster
- Speed - serving up assets to our user at a fast speed - no lagging, best-in-class server
- Ease of scaling - ability to move quickly on scaling up on a platform that can handle it
September 07, 2018
EC2 is great when it comes to simplicity and performing
- I think, we have a positive impact overall. Easy to maintain.
- Scaled and launched more servers at our peak hours
- Managed all servers through console and SSH
- But it is a bit expensive overall
September 05, 2018
EC2 is easy to use and extremely useful
- With all the features it offers, the ROI is fantastic and easily is a good investment for any firm no matter the size.
September 04, 2018
Amazon: Big IaaS option for your business
- EC2 reduced the need for many specialized personnel for infrastructure.
- Reduced expenses in acquisition and maintenance of servers.
- Reduced costs in configuration of development and production environments, due to virtualization, images and volume management.
- The perception of many clients improves when you work with an ally like Amazon AWS, which translates into contracts.
September 04, 2018
EC2 review from a small interactive shop
- Saved us money on certain app deployment resource costs
- ROI has been great on it, as it keeps costs low, and uptime keeps clients happy and us not having to do extra work
- Security level has been top notch and helped us avoid costly and frustrating up time
September 03, 2018
Cost Effective Virtual Machine AWS
- Approx 40% Positive Impact due to it being cost effective and secured.
- Approx 30% Negative Impact due to improper AWS Technical Support
August 31, 2018
AWC EC2 for elastic compute
- Instance procurement time has become negligible with EC2. Any developer can provision an instance very quickly and companies can move towards automation of CI/CD pipelines and auto provisioning of EC2s.
- Companies do not have to spend money in managing infrastructures, data centers, staff to manage these, networking, connectivity etc. All this will be taken care by AWS and EC2 can be used to run your enterprise softwares and custom applications.
- If not correctly monitored EC2 prices can run up very quickly. So proper monitoring has to be in place in your organization. Non-prod and dev EC2 servers should be brought down in evening and night.
August 31, 2018
EC2 - often better to buy direct
- When I first was involved in shifting from physical servers to EC2 we saw an initial saving of around 80% a month; previously we had been paying in excess of £1000 per server per month and had 3 servers.
August 31, 2018
Highly recommend cloud computing instances like EC2
- It allowed us to solve our scaling issues that the managed service wouldn't help with, but introduced more as we learned how to use it and made mistakes.
- Allowed us to be more effective as a dev team by having new servers readily available for working on and testing.
- It has cost more because we use more resources now than when we had managed hosting.
- Our profit levels on managed hosting has improved with using EC2.
- We've saved a lot of money on in house servers by using EC2 to host our MSSQL for apps.
- EC2 has allowed us to offer more services to clients without adding more IT staff to manage.
August 30, 2018
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - An amazing tool.
- Can easily spin up/down servers when needed
- So many resource choices.
August 30, 2018
Review for AWS EC2 instance
- It has a really positive impact on the business, with less hassle to deploy applications, and with less and easier management of the servers, along with best service
August 29, 2018
AWS - launchpad for VPS' at usage-based billing
- AWS has been a costly experiment, only from the surprise costs of hosting.
August 29, 2018
EC2 From the view of a medium sized company
- EC2 has helped us decrease the cost related to our web facing services.
- Uptime has been fantastic, providing constant service for our customers.
- The options available for sizing of instances has allowed us to pay for the power we require, without loading our servers up with stats we don't need.
August 29, 2018
EC2 from AWS makes provisioning and managinig cloud servers cost-effective and quick.
- AWS has had a very positive return on investment for every client we have that uses it. They are saving money in the long run.
- AWS includes the underlying operating system licenses with their EC2 instances so no longer do we have to navigate through Microsoft licensing headache.
- EC2 allows us to easily create a golden image of servers and store them as AMIs. This makes spinning up new servers that need a particular set of software in the future extremely easy and cost-effective.
August 29, 2018
EC2 - reliable and cost effective
- Our business saves over 900% on hosting costs compared to our previous hosting with Azure.
August 29, 2018
My Amazon AWS EC2 Review
- Has enabled positive return on innovation
April 11, 2018
Amazon's EC2 is where it's at!
- Positive Impact - ROI increased since switching backup solutions to our own hosted on EC2. We were paying a 3rd party subscription for their backup software and storage space. Now we have purchased a perpetual license for backup software, re-branded it as ours and have saved month-over-month on costs.
- Positive Impact - No need for customer support because everything inside of EC2 is self serve. A great learning experience and can work at your own pace to implement/troubleshoot.
- Negative Impact - Time to inception was a little slower than we'd like. Learning curve for Amazon's products and how to use them.
April 05, 2018
EC2: The trusty virtualization choice
- 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 demand without operational staff with EC2 autoscaling
January 19, 2018
Amazon Web Services EC2. Not cheap, but a great option.
- The pay as you go nature is easier on the budget than big up front investments.
- The speed of deployment allows for much faster turnaround times on projects.
- The tech support is great and allows projects to run smoothly when issues are encountered.
January 19, 2018
Works well for us.
- We pay only for the resources that we are actually using. When an instance isn't needed it's terminated and we don't pay for it.
- Allowed us to avoid investing in new data centers in regions where we don't have a presence. We can now quickly spin up AWS resources in new regions.
- It's taught our developers to treat servers as cattle rather than pets.
January 08, 2018
EC2: Power Hosting for DIYers
- AWS EC2 has made it easy to transition some of our architecture to spot instances, which has saved us up to 80% on hosting costs.
- Transitioning to EC2 was a significant investment for us because of its degree of flexibility. Since ultimately all configuration is left to the administrator, there is a steeper learning curve to get started over using something like Elastic Beanstalk to host your apps.
- Creating EC2 images and launching new instances from these images allowed us to scale some of our services much more easily.
December 20, 2017
EC2 is the industry standard, but pricey.
- Less mistakes when rolling out new software versions into production.
- Less stress on our employees.
- More confidence we communicating to management.
December 19, 2017
Comprehensive offering with amazing tie in with the AWS Ecosystem
- Positive impact, because we could setup the instances and automate the backups using the Snapshot service. With about 1 min of downtime every morning, we were able to backup the instance using automated script.
- With great flexibility comes steep learning curve, we had to spend considerable time getting up to speed with the way EC2's are setup and how to tweak the instance for optimal performance. Wish Amazon offers prebuilt templates for things like this instead of using Docker over EC2.
- Overall I would consider this a very good investment.
December 14, 2017
AWS EC2 Thoughts!
- Faster time to market. Very low infrastructure provisioning time period.
- 50-70% reduction in TCO of servers.
- Customer satisfaction is significantly improved.