Works well for us.
January 19, 2018
Works well for us.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
[It's] Being used across all lines of business to deliver SaaS applications to customers.
- Elastic compute capacity ... can quickly scale up and down to meet our current needs
- Many instance types .... many options for compute optimized, memory optimized, GPU optimized, etc. instances so we can always use an instance that best fits our particular needs
- Highly available
- Larger instances sizes are prohibitively expensive
- Sometimes capacity is constrained for particular instance types
- Service limits on EC2 types can get difficult to manage
- We pay only for the resources that we are actually using. When an instance isn't needed it's terminated and we don't pay for it.
- Allowed us to avoid investing in new data centers in regions where we don't have a presence. We can now quickly spin up AWS resources in new regions.
- It's taught our developers to treat servers as cattle rather than pets.
- Azure and GCP
AWS is by far the most mature platform, but others are catching up. We will be keeping a close eye on the competition and using them whenever they're a better fit for the workload than AWS.