Excellent platform for scalable on-demand compute servers
April 09, 2025

Excellent platform for scalable on-demand compute servers

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

For hosting our web platform on multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances with the use of launch templates and auto scaling groups. This helps whenever we get a spike in the requests during peak season to handle the platform. The availability of multiple instances types according to cpu, memory also helps in right fitting of the infrastructure. Also the availability of public AMI with updated packages also removes the installation overhead.

Pros

  • Customising virtual machines with your own scripts and packages.
  • Auto scaling the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances based on events and thresholds
  • Creating multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances in a single go with launch templates

Cons

  • Portal to check all Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances from different regions at single place
  • Configuration page for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances can be made simpler. Make required fields as mandatory.
  • Saving plan commitments helped to reduced the infra cost.
  • Rightsizing the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances used by eks cluster also helped with cost savings
  • The use of spot instances for various use cases also reduced the cost.
The compatibilities with different server os types from a single portal and provisioning them through code helps in maintaining the infra.

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 Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances works well for hosting applications that can be monolithic or microservices. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are easy to be provisioned with the features of launch templates and auto scaling groups which provides a way to handle load at peaks or spikes on platform. These can also be customized with the use of userdata for running user specific scripts.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
8.3
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
9
Dynamic scaling
9
Elastic load balancing
9
Pre-configured templates
8
Monitoring tools
8
Pre-defined machine images
8
Operating system support
9
Security controls
7
Automation
8

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