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June 27, 2024

Highly available, instant access servers for your workloads!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

We primarily use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances for running our Splunk deployments on AWS, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) gives us the flexibility to choose from a wide range of server types at an hourly rate, or for even lower prices with upfront commitment - it allows us to quickly make changes to the instance types we are interested in and perform testing before then making long-term savings by committing to instances for the next 12 months.

Pros

  • Instant access to servers
  • Wide range of instance types available
  • Ultimate flexibility

Cons

  • Switching hardware types may require application changes
  • Security patching can be onerous if not automated
  • It is easy to end up having more running than you need
  • Allows us to quickly build servers to provide services to customers
  • Pay only for what you use
  • No upfront capital costs
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides everything we need for running some of our vendor's software packages and gives us a range of additional features over running on-premise - such as backups, security and operational monitoring which would require additional implementation running in our own datacenters, this allows us to get started quicker and provides us a reduced Total Cost of Ownership
We chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for our Splunk workloads so that we can take advantage of directly attached high speed storage, along with the other benefits of running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, such as load balancing, spot pricing and general high availability functionality. This allows us to run resilient highly available services to our customers.

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

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is particularly good for running monolithic workloads which are not easy to containerise or run on microservices with other AWS services. This includes off-the-shelf applications from vendors who supply closed-source software and expect a full server for installation. There are other benefits depending on instance types which are an advantage over function-as-a-service type resource, such as direct attached fast storage, high memory, network or graphics requirements.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
8.2
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
10
Dynamic scaling
8
Elastic load balancing
9
Pre-configured templates
6
Monitoring tools
7
Pre-defined machine images
8
Operating system support
9
Security controls
9
Automation
8

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