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My Amazon AWS EC2 Review
August 29, 2018

My Amazon AWS EC2 Review

Greg Schulz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Server StorageIO leverages AWS EC2 on different instance types for various Windows as well as Linux images to meet scaling and performance requirements. Workloads vary from I/O workload test, simulation, functionality, performance among others. In addition to EC2 instances, have also used AWS Lightsail VPS instances including for Wordpress as a BC/DR resource.
  • Ease of management, access, deployment, scaling, options of number and type of resources.
  • Interoperability, compatibility, the scale of compute, server I/O and storage resources.
  • Flexibility to use AMI or build your own.
  • Multiple regions and AZs for building resilient solutions.
  • Bring your own licenses similar to Microsoft Azure hybrid where you can bring your own Windows license as needed.
  • Availability of beyond basic gets you started resource credits to scale and grow.
  • Continue extending AWS tools to support hybrid deployments.
  • Has enabled positive return on innovation
AWS EC2 has been around awhile, it is very extensible, very flexible, very competitive, very evolving, very useful, very many options to do different things, however also meanwhile with hybrid cloud, we also are using Microsoft Azure VMs, as well as VMware vSphere ESXi among various other tools and technologies as part of software-defined data infrastructures.
AWS EC2 is applicable to most any application workload deployment scenario that needs a public cloud, including GovCloud. Even some on-site, on-prem scenarios can leverage AWS Snowball Edge with EC2 on-prem compute to meet some needs. Likewise Lightsail provides options for app specific scenarios, and EKS containers, along with Lambda meet need for serverless/FaaS/PaaS. Key is knowing the various EC2 options from dedicated bare metal to VM to container to even Snowball Edge/SBE. Likewise knowing the various instance options for deployment along with deciding to use on-demand, spot or reserved instances.