Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
EC2 provides the virtual computing environment to be used for multiple uses. Web applications can be launched. Databases can be installed when users want full control to manage the databases. Migration applications such as attunity (Qlik) replication tool, Oracle Goldengate etc, can be launched for the migration purposes such as database migration. EC2 can be used for data integration, data transformation, and data mining purpose. EC2 as the name implies has the capability to scale up the capacity vertically according to our needs.
- EC2 can be used for multiple purposes.
- EC2 can be used for installing Web Application and Middle application
- EC2 can be used for migrating the data from one source to another source
- EC2 can be used for data mining, integration and transformation purposes
- EC2 provides scale up and scale down capability by managing instance type
- EC2 would require often to upgrade with the security patches which cause a burden to manage. Amazon releases new AMI (Amazon Machine Images) which has latest patches frequently. Customer has to upgrade the EC2 with the latest AMI. This is not simple work but could be manageable using automatic scripts. However, it is tedious task.
- EC2 does work fine and best return on investment.
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