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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
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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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November 28, 2017
Best on the market!!
- If something goes wrong with the upgrade then I can roll back to my original system just as quickly.
- Amazing for performing upgrades.
- Availability of your services is amazing.
October 17, 2017
EC2 -- take your QA and scaling woes to the cloud!
- Saved time in training because of its wide usage -- new teams don't need long to be spun up on it
- QA is much more consistent -- we pass around instance names now rather than weird VPS addresses with convoluted user names and access schemes
- We can put the beef in our web app capacity when we need it and out when we don't; this saves thousands in scaling costs
October 09, 2017
Trusted reliable performance for SAAS Applications
- In our co-location physical datacenter we had to over provision servers to handle spikes in traffic, reserve extra cages and power to ensure we had room for future growth. With the move to Amazon EC2 our overall costs have been cut by 50%, and we have been able to focus on our product rather than the infrastructure that is running it.
- Cost structure is easy to understand
- Scaling up the potential of all our POC clients
- Good management tool to scale up pretty fast on all client projects
- After moving to EC2, we've been able to lower infrastructure staff by attrition (not replacing them as they leave), since it takes fewer people to manage EC2 instances than a data center.
- Developers are able to be significantly more involved in infrastructure and troubleshooting as EC2 instances are much more accessible to them when it comes to troubleshooting production issues.
- Disposable EC2 instances means much fewer production problems. If a server is acting odd, we destroy it and replace it.
July 28, 2017
It scales – if you know what you're doing
- Overall, EC2 and other AWS tools are not as cheap as they appear at first. So ROI may be a little lower than expected, but we probably couldn't have built the products we have without it.
- It takes a really long time to become proficient in their tools. That is a real cost.
- You simply cannot use EC2 by itself. Using it effectively requires a host of other AWS tools, those all have a cost that needs to be taken into account.
- 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.
May 22, 2017
Amazon EC2 - Is it for your business?
- We have additional revenue and profit due to the fact we are hosting our own products/services in EC2 - we don't need to rely on a vendor or multiple vendors!
- The free tier is excellent for getting your feet wet and understanding/testing EC2 without high cost.
April 03, 2017
EC2 to the rescue!
- Use only when needed and shut it down when not in use.
- Use with Elastic bean stalk and make it scalable.
- No issues of any licensing and pay per use for the operating systems
March 30, 2017
AWS EC2 ROCKS SOCKS
- Performance
- Less manual management
- Consolidation of 3rd party services
March 14, 2017
Great tool but cloud computing is a commodity
- At previous businesses we wouldn't have been able to run our infrastructure reliably without EC2. No more hour-long downtimes because Verizon decided to change our server's IP address without warning.
- On the CI project, EC2 allowed us to iterate quickly and scale the CI tool on demand, without having the massive upfront cost of setting up our own server farm.
- EC2 also allows us to easily spawn development machines when we need to connect mobile apps to a development backend, letting us iterate more quickly with partners.
March 14, 2017
EC2 great for legacy, meh for everything else.
- Sustained usage discounts help w/ total cost of cloud infrastructure.
- Tricky to figure out exact cost of infrastructure due to so many pricing levels (based on sustained usage).
August 30, 2016
Amazon EC2
- It has allowed us to scale in the most cost effective way
- It has allowed to easily version control our assets so we can always roll back and not risk losing sales
- It migrates very easily in case there is a worst case scenario
- The backups are top notch
August 30, 2016
AWS EC2 for Data Science
- Positive: Easy to set up, very effective
- Positive: Easy to maintain, doesn't require much engineering hours for maintenance
- Positive: Very flexible, fits well with our current stack
- Since deployment and operational upkeep costs are a critical sales point for my customers, AWS has given me the perfect environment to work with.
- EC2 is great for performing upgrades. I am able to create an entirely new system, then just quickly move the data over with a few clicks, like moving a hard drive. If something goes wrong with the upgrade then I can roll back to my original system just as quickly. I have averted quite a few disasters due to hardware specifications not working properly, which has given me many stress free upgrades, as opposed to what could of happened.
- Growth capability is probably the one thing AWS does better than anyone else, which means that pre-launch calculations are not even something I have to consider, let alone worry about. Having a site crash due to success and popularity is one of the worst things that can happen to someone, and I use to put more time and energy into calculating what "might" happen than I would into designing the site itself. With EC2, I can launch my site with a free micro-instance and can rest easily knowing that regardless of how many customers like and WANT to use my site. Automated scaling is a thing of beauty.