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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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AWS EC2 is so e-c-2-use!

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 25, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use EC2 for almost all our operations, they are an excellent option for workloads like Web Servers like Apache and nginx, Application Servers like WebLogic, Java Servers, a...
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Iván García
Consultant - Professional Services
Consultant
Datum, S.A.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)6 years of experience

Highly available, instant access servers for your workloads!

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 27, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We primarily use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances for running our Splunk deployments on AWS, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) gives us the flexibility to choose ...
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Verified user
Director
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)5 years of experience

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - A Great Solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 26, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
- Cloud Linux Virtual Machines- Cloud Windows Virtual Machines- VPC and Security Groups- Key Pairs- LoadBalancers
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Sagar Mehta
Consultant - Information Technology
Consultant
Atgen Software Solutions LLP
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)14 years of experience

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud review for Machine Learning Developers

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 8, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
I use it for training machine learning models. I use the Deep Learning AMIs available to spin up Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances and then use that to train large models...
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Verified user
Employee
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)2 years of experience

EC2 - All in one solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 11, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use EC2 to rapidly and efficiently scale up or down as needed for our customers while still providing a secure and dependable environment. It enables us to swiftly supply n...
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Neel Shah
Team Lead - Engineering
Head Android
engineerHUB
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)1 year of experience
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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

YouTube
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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

9.3
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 Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime 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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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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AWS EC2 is so e-c-2-use!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
September 25, 2024
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use EC2 for almost all our operations, they are an excellent option for workloads like Web Servers like Apache and nginx, Application Servers like WebLogic, Java Servers, and even as Database Servers with Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server running on them. There plenty of choices to choose on how the EC2 is so they accommodate almost any software on them.

Highly available, instant access servers for your workloads!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 27, 2024
Verified User
Director in Professional Services
Computer & Network Security Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We primarily use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances for running our Splunk deployments on AWS, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) gives us the flexibility to choose from a wide range of server types at an hourly rate, or for even lower prices with upfront commitment - it allows us to quickly make changes to the instance types we are interested in and perform testing before then making long-term savings by committing to instances for the next 12 months.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud review for Machine Learning Developers

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 08, 2024
Verified User
Employee in Research & Development
Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use it for training machine learning models. I use the Deep Learning AMIs available to spin up Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances and then use that to train large models.

I use the GPU-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances, as for training large models good GPUs with high memory are required. I connect the instance to the S3 bucket where I store that data.

EC2 - All in one solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 11, 2023
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Neel Shah
Head Android
engineerHUB (E-Learning, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use EC2 to rapidly and efficiently scale up or down as needed for our customers while still providing a secure and dependable environment. It enables us to swiftly supply new instances and adjust resource allocation as necessary.We also use EC2 to provide high-performance computing, process data, and do analytics.
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