Item: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Rating: 9
Author: Sunny Hemnani

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use EC2 to deploy our microservices-based applications on the development, staging, and production servers. With EC2 we get very high availability Linux servers at minimal cost per hour. It also supports auto-scaling whenever there is a huge load on the system. Our application is a microservices-based chatbot application in the healthcare domain.

Pros and Cons

Scalability.
Reliability.
High Availability.

Cost per hour.
Shared memory for multiple instances.

Return on Investment

Cost is very high for high performance servers.

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?

Yes

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

EC2 is very well suited for Java Applications where high availability is required. On production, developers can use a cheaper server and enable auto-scaling & high-performance servers for production. Docker-based or containerized applications are not suited for EC2 servers whereas Elastic Container Service (ECS) is more suited in those cases.

EC2 is the best compute cloud service provided by any cloud provider.

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)