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EC2 is the industry standard, but pricey.
December 20, 2017

EC2 is the industry standard, but pricey.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

We use EC2 within our R&D department as well as our security division for the purpose of having a segmented and easy to scale environment for testing and for secure remove server access in the case of an emergency. So in short, it's our playground where we don't have to worry about making mistakes.
  • Scale
  • Ease of Use
  • Features
  • Price
  • Locations
  • DB Offering
  • Less mistakes when rolling out new software versions into production.
  • Less stress on our employees.
  • More confidence we communicating to management.
EC2 is the original market leader and that is the reason why we chose to go with them, but Microsoft as well as others are catching up. It boils down to price and comfort level. The feature sets are mostly the same and the service will continue to be come commoditized as time goes on.
Due to the price, it is most cost effective for scenarios where you do not need constant processing, because if you work out the math it is far cheaper to go with a bare metal solution. With that said, if you require some flex hosts for testing for a few hours or days, then the solution can't be beat.