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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

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
Incentivized
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

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

9.1
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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October 31, 2019

Maximum flexibility. Competitive pricing. Great support.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
9
Service up-time and other reliability factors are outstanding for EC2, and self-service using the AWS Console and CloudWatch is sufficient for the most part. Occasionally we hit blockers but there's still the community forum in case we need to get some help from the customer support or other members in the community.
October 21, 2019

The de facto standard cloud VM host

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Patrick Plaisance
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
Pachyderm Consulting (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
8
AWS's support is good overall. Not outstanding, but better than average. We have had very little reason to engage with AWS support but in our limited experience, the staff has been knowledgeable, timely and helpful. The only negative is actually initiating a service request can be a bit of a pain.
October 18, 2019

Amazon EC2 - Best Cloud Hosting Provider on the market

Gabriel Samaroo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gabriel Samaroo
Senior Software Engineer
Rocketrip (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
10
There are so many different tutorials and documentation available online on how to use EC2. In addition, it is so widely used that most developers have experience using the various Amazon services. Amazon also provides paid services where they offer support for whatever your specific needs may be. The admin console is also very details and has a great user interface, making it easy to figure things out on your own.
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