userec2.aws.
March 27, 2025

userec2.aws.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

We use our EC2 instances to host our backend app. It runs our web server that allows users to interact with our app via a browser. The product helps us deliver/process our user's designs and emails, send out automated emails and notifications, and run periodic security checks to ensure data integrity.

Pros

  • Easy to interact with instances via ssh.
  • Many different options and configurations to choose from.
  • Widespread compatibility with other cloud services especially AWS.

Cons

  • Interaction via amazon's console.
  • Complex setup/configurations to get it running.
  • Operating system versioning is done manually.
  • We can easily handle crunch periods where usage is at its peak due to its scaling functionality.
  • We can ensure that the customer will have the fastest connection due to its availability worldwide and CDN support.
  • It has been expensive to have custom configurations and not using predefined images.
It's easy and straightforward for a technical person to use it via SSH, but when working in cross-functional teams, using Amazon's web console is difficult for this particular service. Most modern cloud providers provide a more seamless user interface to interact with their cloud machines, and the same should have been the case with EC2.
Using Digital Ocean's droplets was much easier and faster to set up and test, but we needed very specific and custom configurations and hardware for our use case, so we went ahead with using Amazon's EC2 instances.

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?

No

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It works well when you work at scale. For example, if you are hosting a web application, having EC2 in auto-scaling groups would make it very easy to handle all traffic volumes, given that the scaling configuration is set up accordingly. It can be used with a load-balancing layer to improve availability.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
7.8
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
9
Dynamic scaling
10
Elastic load balancing
10
Pre-configured templates
8
Monitoring tools
6
Pre-defined machine images
6
Operating system support
6
Security controls
6
Automation
9

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