Item: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

EC2 is easy to get started with there are a lot of online resources for help. We use it to serve our online Django-based Rest and Graph API's to support our online application. The SSH EC2 feature is very great and makes it easy during deployment from a local machine. The free tier EC2 instance comes in handy to develop and deploy a prototype for testing.

Pros and Cons

Hosting and deployment.
High performance computing.
Development and test environments.

UI is little complicated.
Limited information for the resources managed by Amazon EC2.
Networking is not as flexible as other providers.

Return on Investment

Quick prototype deployment and testing leading to lower application production deployment time.
High availability.
Improved security with AWS security groups.

Key Insights

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

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

Yes

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

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

The availability of free tier makes it a good choice to develop and test prototypes in early-stage startups.
The fact that the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud can be turned up quickly in case of an emergency, means that businesses have minimal downtime for their applications which makes Ec2 a great choice for backup and disaster recovery.

Other Software Used

Zoho Analytics (formerly Zoho Reports), Zoho Creator, Zoho CRM

Alternatives Considered

Google Compute Engine

The availability of AWS startup credits led my choice of AWS EC2.

EC2 for Startups

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)