Amazon EC2

Avantages

I like EC2 for the features like i can create instance of any OS (Windows, Linux) more over it gives you a one year free trial and you can use it from you local machine connecting through many sources i usually used the putty

Inconvénients

the one thing that i like the least about EC2 is that machine you get with free trial is very basic and slow so if you need a free trail and you want to test your script od piece of software that is a bit more resources consuming you may not be able to use it

Avantages

Easy to set up both manually and scripted, with a very wide variety of machine types so you can select the most cost-effective machines for your different needs. It's hosted on one of the most popular cloud platforms there are so expect to get high-quality infrastructure for a fair cost.

Inconvénients

Permissions are complicated to set up, and load balancing is rather costly. Also, changing instance type requires a restart which is less than optimal.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Amazon EC2

Avantages

Great way to scale your cloud computing for business. Love that they charge by the second giving better value.

Inconvénients

It took some time to set up but that's to be expected and worth the time for results.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Amazon EC2

Avantages

EC2 is so easy to set up. It doesn't require any thought to what is happening "behind the scenes".

Inconvénients

It doesn't require any thought to what is happening "behind the scenes". When something breaks, you're on your own (without a minimum $2,000/mo support contract). AWS slowly increase the cost of associated tech with no way to understand why.

Avantages

Scaling up and down the instances of EC2 can be really easy task which can can be cost effective.
Best part about it is its ability to turn on or off the instances with just one click.

Inconvénients

It requires some bit of technical expertise to work with EC2 and we have to apply patches and security updates on regularly.

Avantages

A wide range of machine type is available to fit every need. EC2 clusters can be further customized (e.g. with additional storage) and networking and security are easily managed.

Inconvénients

Amazon EC2 setup and administration is not straightforward since it requires a solid IT background.

Avantages

You only pay for the resources used, while they're running

Inconvénients

You can't natively see the available size of an EBS volume attached to your instance

Avantages

Easy to spin up a cloud server either Linux or Windows OS on the go.

Inconvénients

The cost of running an EC2 instance is too expensive, and Switching between different zones like US-East-1, US-East-2 and US-West-1 , US-West-2 can be confusing.

Avantages

It provide best firewall and security features.

Inconvénients

I didn't find any drawback as of now. all good.

Avantages

The biggest pro about using EC2 is that it is auto-scaling. So this allows for the most cost-efficient solution currently in my situation and allows for the ramp up in resources when necessary as well.

Inconvénients

No cons about Amazon EC2, it is great and reliable for my use case.

Avantages

the connectivity to the S3 bucket and easy way to automate from github

Inconvénients

I have not seen any cons for now. It has been a great administration.

Avantages

The ease of being able to spin up a server with a few clicks and under 5 minutes puts Amazon EC2 as the go to instance during testing and deployment of an application. You can basically scale horizontally or vertically as required which is more preferable when compared to on prem

Inconvénients

You need to be well vast in computer security and a few basic concepts about a server to be able to properly configure the instance. Else, you run the risk of exposing your data if not setup correctly

Avantages

The very first thing which is best is the Pay-as-you-go billing system for EC2 such that even if the instance is made dormant for sometime it will not charge for its existence. On top of it it provides smooth scalability and easy integration with other AWS services.

Inconvénients

For new beginners in AWS there is a slight learning curve for AWS services including EC2. That is for user when they first start using EC2 it might be tough for them to know its uses or applications.

Avantages

The entire process was very simple, required a few steps. The documentation was straight to the point.

Inconvénients

I used the trial version but the price was a bit scary. There was no free credit as with GCP. The pros outweighed the cons

Avantages

- Easy to use and simple configuration- Amazon provide one year free tier for new user account- Good customer support- Easy to install any OS in EC2 - Provide role base permission to user- Easily manager scaling, load balance and auto scale- Easily share snapshot backup from one account to another account

Inconvénients

- Sometime not able to find an old version OS in new UI- charges for data transfer

Avantages

AWS has good name recognition. If you're an IT Service provider, or if you own a company for which you want to get funding, name-dropping AWS could give you some additional credibility.

AWS has every feature you could hope for in an IaaS system.

Inconvénients

AWS has every feature you could hope for in an IaaS system. I've very rarely seen any organization or application that needs anywhere close to what AWS offers. Most people use EC2, Lambda, Database services, Kubernetes services, and maybe Kafka. But most less expensive, and less complicated providers have all of these features too.

As a user, you have to set up all of the underlying infrastructure like network groups, overly complicated (but not better) security configurations, etc. Most of the work setting up an environment on AWS is setting up things you don't really need.

You'll receive bills from AWS and chances are, it will be considerably more than you estimated, and you'll have to spend considerable time finding where the cost is coming from, and changes are, you'll have a lot of trouble shutting down the unneeded items.

Avantages

Easy to deploy
Easy to configure
Fast and reliable tools
Fully customizable

Inconvénients

Console user management
Roles assignment is tricky
Cost is a little higher than competitors

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Amazon EC2 

Pourquoi passer à Amazon EC2

Avantages

The ability to spool up a server in a few minutes has always blown my mind. I had a recent server failure that resulted in me spooling up a new server to replace it. I was able to get the job done in under two hours. It would have been much faster than that if I had done it before, but there was some learning required in the process. I've documented the process, so the next time this happens, I will be able to get back up and running in minutes.

Having been in IT my whole life, this ability is quite amazing. It was the stuff of dreams over a decade ago and now I get to live it out. There are way too many good things to say about EC2. I can have multiple servers spread across the world so I can service my customers locally, instead of them having to traverse continents and oceans to hit up a server. I can attach and detach storage so I can start working from where I last started. The list goes on and on.

I want to say that there is a plethora of helpful information available to those who need support. The Amazon support information is great as well as YouTube and other informational sites. If you're Google-Fu is up to date, you can get the help you need without having to pick up the phone.

Inconvénients

The biggest con to EC2 is the shear vastness of features, tools, and functionality. For people who are new and want to start off, there is not an easy or simple "get started here" path that I have found. There is so much to learn, and so much you will never know, that getting some help at the beginning should really be considered.

Avantages

My virtual machine was always up, like I've never seen it ran out or restart or anything. It was always running which is what I was looking for in a server, Consistency.

Inconvénients

The Amazon AWS platform is too confusing, like they think you have to be an Amazon employee to understand the interface, too many buttons, too much information that I (as a marketing professional) don't need to know or I won't ever use. They really need to work on a simple platform for people who are not an engineer and let us just choose a simple plan and go with it.

Avantages

The ability to scale up and down our use of the platform is the best feature. We consume thousands of channels of content for ETL and regardless of our ask, EC2 has handled our loads extremely well.

Inconvénients

Setup in the AWS environment can be unintuitive at times, and byzantine at the worst. AWS could definitely do better with some easier means for casually technological teams to make use of the powerhouse toolset.

Avantages

EC2 was the core infrastructure in the Platform I have developed for a few months. It has provided computing sources for a Web App that was used extensively by hundreds of clients. It was reliable (no downtimes were recorded) and quite easy to set up. We have used different configurations of EC2 to meet our efficiency needs

Inconvénients

The learning curve for EC2 and AWS overall is quite steep, so the first steps were quite hard, but it was worth the effort to learn administrating EC2.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Amazon EC2

Avantages

It provides a variety of options to create machines with different type of configurations. It is safe, secure and scalable. I started using this service to learn some features.

Inconvénients

Some time, my machine stayed open and I did not know about it. After some time I got a mail with certain amount of bill. I was using a free service with limited hours. AWS should have alerted me if I was going over the limit.

Avantages

We provide an animation service and require a server infrastructure to process the rendering.
- Simply the most inexpensive service on the planet.
- Multiple redundancies leading to a fuss free experience.
- The service can be scaled up to infinity and beyond whenever required.
- Dedicated security keys and encryption.
- We can install and use our own custom scripts and OS and scale up the specifications of the server.

Inconvénients

Its pretty much a perfect system.

- We had to hire a specialist for setting everything up for the first time due to the complex nature of the settings.
- Any misconfiguration can lead to a cascading failure if not careful.
- There are latency issue.

Avantages

I have used free trial option and it was really helpful to me. It is cost effective. Server deployment is very simple. Scalability is one of the feature i like most. When your virtual machine not in use you can turn it off this feature is benificial for beginners

Inconvénients

Amazon EC2 is works good so there is no drawback i found.

Avantages

After you get to know it, managing EC2 instances in AWS is super easy - the UX is very good

Inconvénients

Sometimes some operations on EC2 instances take quite a while (which might be fine), but except a "loading indication" that doesn't help - you can't really know if the action still takes place or whether it's stuck.
A progress indicator (even based on common stats, if can't be really measured) - can help a lot.