Amazon EC2 Reviews & Product Details

- EC2 is easiest to use cloud computing service among its peers

- easy to configure and install

- It comes with wide variety of configuration option to choose from and has ability to solve any kind of computing requirement.

- Easy vertical scaling on need basis with minimal downtime.

- Whenever required, a new machine can be launched with in couple of minutes and can be destroyed when not in use

- Comes with out of box logging & monitoring solutions and helps in easy monitoring and debugging at time of any issue.

- Provides multiple options to procure instances like on-demand, spot and reserved as per need and provides opportunity to save cost drastically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Sometimes ssh connection disconnect too frequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EC2 has great features and functionalities, with the new dashboard its all on the go and can be monitored easily.

1. Easy to use

2. Support service

3.Scalable and reliable

4. System alert checks can be configured Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't seen any downsides in the EC2 Service of AWS, obviously I faced some challenges in the beginning but overcome them with online documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Amazon Web Service (AWS) EC2 offers many options of operating systems to choose from, like Ubuntu, Windows, Debian, CentOs etc.

2. It comes with the free trial of AWS, so one can use or try it without any worries.

3. It have great VPS, load balancer options associated with it, so we can customize according to our requirements.

4. It also offers Elastic IPs with very reasonable pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Under the Basic Plan the wait period is so long even for billing or non-tech queries.

2. Initial setup is still not so easy to deploy first instance for beginners.

3. Their mobile app has limited features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon EC2 comes with the Amazon Web Service's Free trial bundle of 12 Months, so one can easily opt-in for AWS EC2. AWS EC2 is enough itself to complete one's server requirements. One can use these servers to host their blogs, portals, app api's or complete website without so much knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

These days Amazon EC2 is not coming up with something new. They are just upgrading OS according to original publishers. They should add something new to give boost to existing users. It's still a little bit difficult to setup for the first timers, they could modify it more user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Web Service's EC2 is one stop solution for virtual servers. It have wide variety of server like Ubuntu, Windows etc. with custom requirements. We can have dedicated as well as shared infrastructures. It have secure systems available at different locations across the world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although it's difficult to find things to be disliked in AWS EC2, but some features still needs improvement like setting up Load Balancers or cloudfront still requires a lot of knowledge and time. According to my personal opinion, the availability of AWS EC2 servers across the countries could be increased to improve the latency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like Amazon's AWS EC2 because of it's fast and cost saving service. Second thing that makes it one of the best is that it comes with the bundle of AWS free trial of 12 months, under which we get one instance free for 750 hrs per month, that makes it free for 12 months. Third thing is it provides ubuntu, windows and other widely used server OS as the available Operating systems for the server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It only provides 30 GB in the free version, once we start it with the limit of 30 GB, it takes huge time to update or change the 30 GB volume. Second thing which is missing in AWS ec2 is it's vps settings are a little bit complex in new version, according to me! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use, highly configurable best in the class of IaaS. The best thing I like is you get wide range of aws images from which you can create your own instance stating from windows to linux. Large number of linux and windows distros are available which comes with pre installed softwares support for specific usage. It gives free tier of 750 hrs per month of micro instances which I guess is very encouraging for new users specially for those who are in a learning phase of cloud infrastructures. Another nice thing I found is one can add up elastic block store (EBS) as per their needs and can even stop EBS if the instance is not currently running. Its pretty awesome to find they charge you only for the uptime and the resources you are using. Rest of the time the resources are distributed among others when not in use. That's why one gets different ip every time they starts their instance unless one has assigned a elastic ip dedicatedly. One more thing that I feel most of the IaaS lack is to create snapshot of a instances, which aws manages well and one can save the EC2 instance snapshot in S3 storage for later usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no such dislikes for overall aws services. But one thing is that, as the services are highly configurable and intergrable so one needs to learn a lot and understand a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon's AWS EC2 is best because of its continuous and reliable services. There pricing structure is quite reasonable, if you are a beginner then they also offers 12 months of free trial. AWS EC2 serves nearly every type of server requirements whether it's for a blog or for a large websites. We can customize AWS EC2 according to our requirements, from IP's to VPS, from Ram to processors, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing much to dislike, but if they could simply the setup process, it would be great. One more thing that could be noticed is that if someone loose access to server by any reason, they shall be process to retain it to save the data and server being trash. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon allows various ways of gaining incidentes, such as slow growth, money and the reserved ones, mostly depends entirely on the necessity, because it makes highly intelligent choices possible at these times, which enable considerable cost savings whilst addressing the situation as best I like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While the characteristics are beneficial, you must also be cautious. There may well be inclinations for other applications to interfere. There were also cases where the complete closure of a program before another was started was difficult. There can also be hidden costs in the price model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flexibility,Easy to use, priced perfect and excellent support by Amazon team. From single user to global enterprise usage, Amazon EC2 works great. Someone who is using the managed services or multiple applications on a single go, Amazon EC2 is a one stop for all solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a ambiguity in the costing sometimes. Also, the time frame to reserve instance for 12 months should be flexible as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The thing about AWS EC2 is that it comes with the AWS 12 Months Free Trial, so anyone with low budget or having small requirements may opt EC2 without paying 100's of dollars. It have so many options to choose from as your Server OS, like Ubuntu, Windows etc. Even after Free Trial limits, the charges for the computation are competitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a little bit complex for newbies. The charges for "data transfer", specially like for videos and audio are quite high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 comes with AWS 12 Months Free Trial, it was a beneficial option for us, when we started growing. It's still our favorite choice because it have higher uptime and supports all of our requirements. It gives us the flexibility of deploy or update/change any cloud server according to our daily needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although it comes with the free trial, but for users like us who are using it after or over the free trial, it's data transfer charges are little bit high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon has been a most reliable and trusted Cloud Service provider. Other than on premise service this EC2 service from Amazon has made easy to launch and maintain EC2 instances. Auto scaling when there is a demand is done automatically, which avoids disturbances for end user. It has also got a free usage for 12 months (750 Hours) for users who want to try it out.

And with the help of AWS CLI it just a command away to manage all the EC2 instances right from our pc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing much to dislike, But I felt that for all the Subnets and Routing tables its always the Id which is been showed and its little confusing and also unlike linux instance windows instances takes 4 mins and + to start the instance, which can be reduced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The renewed dashboard makes it easy to implement the best features of AWS EC2. The uptime is beyond comprehension. I have used it for the about 2 years now and no technical issue. Als, the resolution and response time is amazing. Also , I love the AWS credit they offer to try out the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the applications are still using the old dashboard. It is very difficult to navigate, It even makes it very frustrating to implement obvious features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EC2 has all the types of underlying OS such as linux, windows , rhel etc. which makes it best service to use for computation. It also provides facility to stop the instances when not in use without loosing any data. It can save cost in nonprod environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If we lose the EC2 key pair associated with an instance, it becomes very complicated to access the instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part of AWS EC2 is that it is one of the most widely use Amazon Web Services product which comes with AWS Free trial. It's pricing is not too much and highest uptime and various options of OS(s) to choose from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you are using fixed size volume like say 30GB, server will stop working or start misbehaving as soon as it got full, and now the worst part to resize the volume you will have to wait and work for hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For us it is a very pleasant system to be able to carry out tests on their virtual machines, so it is perfect for testing any type of system to avoid adding it directly to our main company network, I am happy because it worked very well. tools are simple and intuitive is to create the instance with the desired operating system and region, simple and has different ways of using the virtual machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not have a type of a problem with the system, I find the different ways in which we can handle the instances to use the Amazon Vps network, but it would be ideal to update the regions and optimize it since they are very slow and You can freeze the machine when testing the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon allows different ways to obtain instances, such as low demand, cash and reserved, mostly depending on the need it presents, because on these occasions highly intelligent decisions can be made, which allows significant cost savings while addressing the situation in the best possible way, which is one of the aspects that I love the most from my point of view, without excluding that its memory size choice function that any user decides to opt for, is totally incredible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user interface designed by EC2 is a bit complex, which means that a detailed and simple explanation can be lost, since the information it offers according to its functionalities is very extensive, exceeding the Limited margin, since for many users it is totally confusing, in other outstanding aspects we can include that this service is a bit difficult to consume, which requires that new operators need a learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon EC2 has many great features and functionalities that made it the number one provider of cloud based services. It can be found in almost every company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While the features are helpful, you also have to ensure that you are careful. There may be tendencies to interfere with other applications. There has also been cases where there was difficulty fully closing a program before opening another. Also the pricing model can have hidden charges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy connection , good performance and security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

price is too high for the service special if you need big CPU Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the several points that interests me about this software is its wide variety of configurations on the machines, if the anticipated problems are heavy on the memory, such as, cpu, gpu or io, it provides the appropriate solutions following the list of requirements corresponding to each one of them, making mention by another conventional sense that it has a high-speed internet connection, being an essential functionality in technological development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It tends to present many configuration options that make it difficult to understand its functionality to start an instance or alter it systematically, this could be expensive if you get multiple commercial channels through this software, this means that the expectations raised by users are not so effective in obtaining, in variable terms, of undertakings and marketing of products strategically with intelligence of achievement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.