Amazon EC2 - Is it for your business?
May 22, 2017
Amazon EC2 - Is it for your business?
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
We use EC2 for both our own virtual infrastructure as well as clients. We build, manage and maintain EC2 instances and VPCs. It is being used to solve the problem of hardware depreciation and upkeep. It also helps with uptime and availability and can offer higher promises than if we ran it in-house.
- We run a backup server in the cloud that is highly elastic - grow or shrink as needed on demand
- We run image repositories in EC2 and again, they are highly elastic in a sense that you can shrink or grow when needed
- Amazon is excellent at offering a plethora of services and technologies to mix and match how you need to
- Amazon should offer a managed option at a premium
- Amazon EC2 can be daunting and scary - it's all a-la-carte
- EC2 can be more thorough with documentation or giving case specific examples
- 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.
EC2 was broader in its offering than Azure seemed to be. Azure documentation I found to be lacking in some respects. EC2's cost model is more supportive of our business model above Azure's. Azure has the benefit of being tightly integrated with Windows/Microsoft products but EC2 still takes the cake.