My wonderful EC2 Experience
November 13, 2019

My wonderful EC2 Experience

Mark Freeman, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

We are transitioning from on-premise to AWS for 100+ applications. Our products are highly regulated and must be always available since we are the company which matches buyers and sellers of equities in the stock market. The EC2s host our computer programs which match trades and perform other ancillary features such as hosting standard settlement instructions.
  • Automatic scaling of microservices
  • Fast CPUs
  • Selectable memory size
  • Unknown limits of managed services
  • Sharing of resources... Could have noisy-neighbors
  • Uncontrollable downtimes
  • Positive: reduced operating costs
  • Positive: easier setup
  • Positive: easier monitoring
Lambda great when serverless compute will work
  • Easy to find documentation
  • Large community

Do you think Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) again?

Yes

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), MySQL, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Suited:
- no hardware purchases
- ease of setup and use
Not suited:
- regulations require Tier1 or 0 availability

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Feature Ratings

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
7
Dynamic scaling
9
Elastic load balancing
10
Pre-configured templates
9
Monitoring tools
9
Pre-defined machine images
8
Operating system support
9
Security controls
9