Trusted reliable performance for SAAS Applications
October 09, 2017
Trusted reliable performance for SAAS Applications
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
We have been hosting our SAAS Ecommerce platform since 2008 on Amazon EC2, back when there were only a handful of core services, EC2 , S3 and EBS. We have grown from hosting 300 Ecommerce websites to 1500+ in multiple regions, running 300 to 500 EC2 instances during peak periods.
Amazon EC2 has enabled us to expand into different countries with zero upfront cost, saved us from having to complete at least 2 full hardware refreshes and reduces our costs by allowing us to scale down infrastructure during non peak periods. As of Oct 2nd 2017 EC2 is per second billing, which will save us even more.
Amazon AWS is a trusted brand and has a proven track record providing infrastructure as service with the stability and performance needed to run any workload.
Amazon EC2 has enabled us to expand into different countries with zero upfront cost, saved us from having to complete at least 2 full hardware refreshes and reduces our costs by allowing us to scale down infrastructure during non peak periods. As of Oct 2nd 2017 EC2 is per second billing, which will save us even more.
Amazon AWS is a trusted brand and has a proven track record providing infrastructure as service with the stability and performance needed to run any workload.
- EC2 makes it easy to move to the cloud. You can spin up Windows servers, any flavour of Linux, pre-baked amazon public or marketplace images with applications pre-installed.
- EC2 is great to test your proof of concept. Spin up as many servers as you want for your tests, run your tests for a few minutes and only pay for the time they are running.
- EC2 with Elastic Load Balancing and AutoScaling provides an environment where you no longer worry about individual servers or about spikes in traffic. Any failed serves are automatically replaced, and when a spike occurs servers scale up and down to handle the load, while keeping costs at a minimum.
- EC2 parameter store allows us to store application secrets, keeping them secure and only available to EC2 instances with the roles to allow access.
- The only area for improvement that I've been looking for is shorter billing increments than 1 hour. This has just recently come into effect with per second billing as of Oct 2nd 2017.
- 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.