EC2 - reliable and cost effective
August 29, 2018

EC2 - reliable and cost effective

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

Our product was redesigned from the ground up to use EC2. The way that our product has been architected helps up utilize the EC2 infrastructure effectively and has cut our hosting costs by 900%. It has also greatly lowers the difficulty of deploying new releases to all of our customers.

Pros

  • On demand instances for limited time and heavy processing greatly saves on cost.
  • Reserved instances allow for cost savings for instances that you plan on having running all of the time.
  • Many options of instance types allow you to customize the type of processing you need.

Cons

  • Programming and product changes may be required to use EC2 in the most efficient way.
  • EC2 is best used by rethinking your hosting model. You get the most benefit by throwing out the idea of just launching a virtual machine per customer.
  • Most users don't understand the pricing model and miss out on cost savings.
  • Our business saves over 900% on hosting costs compared to our previous hosting with Azure.
AWS EC2 is far superior to Microsoft Azure, especially in up time, maintenance and cost.
It is a great infrastructure to work with if you are architecting a product. Lots of tools to use and options within AWS that integrate easily with EC2. If you are simply looking to launch virtual machines, make sure you are looking at Reserved Instances and not On Demand instances.

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