Amazon EC2

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

Amazon EC2 simply offers so many awesome features.

Inconvénients

Its princing is not the best in the market.

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

Amazon EC2 is one of the best web service for flexible cloud computing which supports the deploy of virtual machines so fast. Amazon EC2 download and upload speed is very fast along with secure and reliable in or out of network accessibility. In our office we use it as a VM for running different product on it.

Inconvénients

At first user can fell complex so learning to use Amazon EC2 can take some time but overall service is best.

Avantages

Here it helps in the interactions with the machine for easy manipulation

Inconvénients

Since I have been using it I have not seen the difficulties about it

Avantages

I implemented several server scripts on EC2 Virtual Machines of the M4 instance profile. Using SSH and remote desktop it feels like working on a local server. Dynamic IP management makes advertising cloud servers to the outside world a very simplified task. I tested applications servers (Apache, Apache Tomcat, IIS, Glassfish, etc) on top of the EC2 cloud as well as database servers such as MySQL and DB2. The system is as "elastic" as advertised with a true pay-as-you-go model. That was the main inception behind realizing an actual "utility-computing" based cloud system by Amazon.

Inconvénients

The security configuration consisting of generating the private/public keys are not that simply packaged for the beginner developer. But many improvement have been made on this front by Amazon.

Avantages

I can't imagine not having Amazon EC2 for managing my development projects, server deployments, and research implementations. Amazon EC2 was the leader in IaaS since the cloud computing inception and it kept proliferating to support more and more cloud services from software services, to IoT, to machine learning, to databases, among many other. After initially setting the registration and authentication with a private/public key pair, creating and managing virtual machines is extremely simple with a streamlined web console. A mainly run my application and database servers on Linux VMs. Thanks to the free-tier in Amazon EC2 even my students can have the chance to inspect with cloud functionality and services using Amazon EC2. Very cost effective even with the paid tiers.

Inconvénients

Better support of secure data processing in the cloud could be an enhancement that Amazon can invest in. Homomorphic encryption techniques for secure processing of encrypted data is improving and Amazon can be leading the research efforts on this front. Moreover, hardware-based data privacy mechanisms such as those employing cryptographic coprocessors in the cloud can be also a track to invest in.

Avantages

Easy to launch instances with multiple configuration to select as per the need. Highly secured and ready to use within few mins. Only charged for the duration used.

Inconvénients

Costs vary as per the region you select to launch EC2 instance. This variation is very huge sometimes

Avantages

Offers a remarkable level of customization, making it a fantastic choice for tailoring your computing resources to your exact needs. With a wide variety of pre-configured operating systems available, setting up your environment is a breeze. This platform is particularly sysadmin-friendly, providing the tools and flexibility needed to manage and optimize your system efficiently. It's like having an all-in-one solution at your fingertips

Inconvénients

The documentation provided can be somewhat lacking, which can make it challenging for users, especially newcomers, to navigate the platform effectively. Additionally, the pricing structure and advertising could benefit from more transparency and clarity to help users better understand the costs involved. Lastly, setting up monitoring can be a bit complex, and streamlining this process could make it more user-friendly. Despite these issues, EC2 still provides robust cloud computing capabilities for those willing to navigate these challenges

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

Accessibility, ease of use, all age friendly

Inconvénients

Not much to not like. Maybe color scheme could be different

Avantages

It provide best firewall and security features.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

pay as you go pricing, High I/O and GPU compute based instances, Elastic IP addresses, Pause and resume instances

Inconvénients

AWS being leaders in cloud computing, don't see much missing features but they can improve on better training materials for beginners of EC2 service.

Avantages

It is easy to use out of the box and can be set up quickly.

Inconvénients

So far it has been great and we have limited issues.

Avantages

+ Pay-as-You-Go Pricing+ Scalability (Allows scale up and scale down resources based on your needs.)+ Wide range use cases

Inconvénients

- Difficult to use without cloud knowledge for beginners.- Unoptimized servers can be costly.

Avantages

Lo utilizo a diario desde hace muchos años, fue el primer Cloud Computing que empecé a utilizar. Como venía del mundo Linux, fue muy fácil utilizarlo. Los compañeros que venían del mundo Windows les costaba mucho más. Tiene un abanico de servicios enorme, prácticamente equivalente a su competencia más directa, como Google y Microsoft. Fácil de configurar, va al grano y no se pierde con tantas opciones como el cloud de Microsoft.

Inconvénients

La facilidad en su interfaz gráfica de administración no es su fuerte. Debería de realizar un rediseño para ponérnoslo más fácil. Fue el primer cloud grande y se nota por su bagaje, teniendo muchas opciones innecesarias o que debería cambiar para ajustarse a lo que da su competencia.

Avantages

AWS's EC2 service is truly excellent. We'll have thousands of applications and operating systems ready to install. It's simple to use when configuring DNS or managing ports. It's incredibly straightforward, thanks to their clean UI. When we install software from the EC2 marketplace, everything is essentially pre-configured. Backup is simple with snapshots, but it will cost you money. We can choose the operating system and get an estimate of how much we'll pay. This will avoid unexpected charges.

Inconvénients

When you stop and restart an instance on EC2, the IP address changes constantly, which makes setting up DNS records quite inconvenient. There is an elastic IP approach that will prevent such, but I believe they should supply it by default for the same cost of instance. Also, support is quite slow, and we must pay an additional fee for it.

Avantages

The ability to scale horizontally and vertically in automatic ways through configurations or by setting alarms. It is very easy to manage hundreds of instances from a central dashboard during stress' times for the application. It is also very easy to version and create templates to automate the creation of this resources and there are always ways of monitoring their health and even ways to avoid leaving instances on that don't represent income to the business.

Inconvénients

There is not an overwhelming bad point. The service works ok and makes what it must without complications. Since it is one of the first services from AWS, it has evolved and matured greatly.

Alternatives envisagées 

Google Cloud

Pourquoi passer à Amazon EC2

It was the perfect fit for the client's current architecture.

Avantages

Amazon EC2 is an extremely flexible cloud computing service. It is modern, complete, integrates easily with all other AWS services and comes at a great price with an ever-decreasing pricing that will simply give the customer more value. If it is your first cloud computing experience, you can start with a template that will facilitate the process of getting started, however, be mindful because templates may tie you up considerably in the future. EC2 is all about standards so you can expect to integrate absolutely everything in your infrastructure with ease. EC2 is the reason why I think bare metal servers do not make a lot of sense nowadays.

Speaking about features, you've got them all and EC2 proves to be a nice gateway to keep using other AWS services. At first, it may be intimidating to implement since the interface is still a bit misleading. Once you understand it, you get your money worth by every penny. We started with EC2 almost 8 years ago and I absolutely haven't thought about replacing with an alternative for many years to come.

Inconvénients

EC2 interface still has a lot of room for improvement. I think that since it is so expansive, fitting everything in concisely in an interface is hard. I think that it has gotten better over time but never to the likes of DigitalOcean that is a superb functional and well-designed UI.

Also, documentation is not very developer friendly (have you seen Mailgun's dev docs?) but it serves you well. Something there is documentation that is referring to another version of the service you are intending to use without you having a lot of notice, that's a catch.

You should also know that just like Apple's ecosystem, AWS is also playing the same game, very difficult to export things should you ever have the need, so make a commitment or find somewhere else.

Avantages

* ALB is a game-changer for managing multiple websites
* Instant scaling up if needed
* Spawn as many servers or instances as you like, in whatever categories you like
* Tag your instances to keep track of them

Inconvénients

* Spawning instances is so much fun -- but it gets expensive
* The UI on huge services (like the ALB) is kind of crazy. Why is it hidden in the small left nav?
* Navigating to the right instance is not always easy

Alternatives envisagées 

Google Cloud

Pourquoi passer à Amazon EC2

AWS offered so much more than Google at the time -- Amazon's whole suite of services just feels that much more robust and well-developed. Not always elegant to use, but works.

Avantages

1. Amazon EC2 offers exceptional capabilities to deploy our customer-centric application in cloud platform at ease.

2. We can effectively utilize its AMI to spin up any type of EC2 instances with any OS based on our business requirements within minutes.

3. Its auto-load balancing feature is helpful when we carry out web hosting with diversified incoming requests from the user.

4. We can also retain snapshots of our EC2 instances which can be used anytime to replicate our application configurations & deployments.

5. As it offers licensing within the charges of its EC2 instances, we are able to utilize various vendor applications and not worry about license renewal or request.

Inconvénients

1. If you wish to perform custom updates, it needs updating a lot of security patches along with its Amazon Machine Image which is quite complex.

2, Network configurations & ACL should be maintained properly so that there isn't any connectivity issues with our EC2-hosted applications.

3. We need to ensure to terminate the EC2 instances if we no longer require the service of it. Charges may incur if its left unchecked.

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

Elastic Bean Stalk is a very simple and reliable platform as a service. You can configure various aspects of your application like deploy, autoscaling and database. Lambda is also an extremely useful resource for small service development without having to set up a complete framework for it.

Inconvénients

Some functions are hard to learn like IAM for example. Also, managing costs well can be a challenge as there are many options to choose from.

Alternatives envisagées 

Google Cloud et Heroku

Pourquoi choisir Amazon EC2 

Pricing, Support, Reliability, and Features Available Only on AWS

Pourquoi passer à Amazon EC2

Previous knowledge of features, pricing and startup program.

Avantages

Superb pricing. Very reliable. Lots of choices. Great dashboard tools. When connected with CloudWatch, monitoring is great. Tools for networking and security are very flexible. Perfect tool to pull out of the technical toolbox when you need a server.

Inconvénients

The variety of choices and configuration options increases the level of complexity. Ideally you know what you're doing before you get started. Windows pricing is a bit steep, but one is better off not running servers on Windows anyways. For paying customers with a certain volume, they need to include a free support level that at least allows bug reporting. We pay them more than $10K/month, and it's crazy we can't even send them a support email or do a chat without paying hundreds more per month.

Avantages

AWS EC2 allows you to create an instance i.e Elastic compute within a few clicks.
For AWS EC2 you do not need to be worried about the installation and partitions and etc configurations.
Instead of selecting the things you just choose your requirement and get it configured with fully installed Everything within few clicks.
Here you get save your time
Here you get to save you money as you have to pay only as you required.
You have to option as well for free tier to the testing purpose of EC2.
Even you have to option to choose a flavor as per your requirement
you can have an option to choose the categories wise instance

You can just say that: easy simple deployment with EC2

Inconvénients

If you have to configure the instance-EC2 you have to pay as per the billing criteria.
You are not allowed to configured or customized your free tier instance-EC2.
If you are not paying for your instance-EC2 your instance will be suspended.

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 

Google Cloud

Pourquoi choisir Amazon EC2 

Found AWS easy to use

Pourquoi passer à Amazon EC2

I found it easy to use

Avantages

I think the whole EC2 environment is impressive, the set of tools allows for implementations of all kinds and on the scale that is necessary. Currently there are many configuration options, the user interfaces have improved making the use fluid and very easy to understand. All the implementations that I have had to carry out have been fast and the integrations with the existing resources have not been a problem.

Inconvénients

In my case, I would like to have some extra tool available to manage the operating system of the instances.

Avantages

Amazon EC2 has a wide variety of instances with various operating systems and hardware options to choose from, this ensures that we are able to select the server we need and have to pay only for that which helps in cost saving. It has options to interact with the server via application libraries, command line terminal & its dashboard which helps in managing the server. Amazon AWS also has other products that integrate really well and easily with Amazon EC2 making it the go-to choice for hosting application servers.

Inconvénients

Amazon EC2 has a learning curve that a beginner may find difficult to grasp easily & quickly also its dashboard user interface is quite complex with a lot of options and it is easy for someone to get confused and overwhelmed by it.

Alternatives envisagées 

Google Cloud

Pourquoi passer à Amazon EC2

The variety of services offered by Amazon is much greater and the fact that it has a very wide user community

Avantages

I like how very configurable Amazon EC2 is. This gives a user greater control and flexibility when deploying a workload. There are also excellent documentation that gives step by step instructions on how to deploy and configure your EC 2 instance.The customer support is also great from what I have experienced. I used a premium support so the experience may differ from those that are not using premium support.

Inconvénients

The downside to having all the control is that it can be very challenging and complex sometimes. The documentation is great but it can be sometimes hard to find content related to issues you are facing.

Alternatives envisagées 

Google Cloud

Pourquoi passer à Amazon EC2

We started with EC2 because we had won some credits and it helped us to understand how to configure, deploy and manage an EC2 instance. We continued using it after the credit has been exhausted since we had a great experience with it.

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

Amazon EC2 handles a lot of our server infrastructure and has in incredible amount of features to help deploy our products in a fast and scaleable fashion. Having integrations with other software allows us to use EC2 in an automated simple "key-turn" clusters.

Inconvénients

The thing a least like about EC2 is how rigid creating resources are. Editing things like machine sizes, flavors, and such is not as intuitive. Along with having different sections/consoles for managing instance configurations like networks or security groups.

Alternatives envisagées 

Google Cloud

Logiciel antérieur 

Heroku

Pourquoi passer à Amazon EC2

EC2 had the most stable APIs at the time and seemed more mature than other cloud offerings.

Avantages

I like how customizable its instances are and the variety that it has is also very great.

Inconvénients

The complexity which one encounters at first is a bit frustrating.

Avantages

Facilidade de criação e gerenciamento de servidores.

Inconvénients

Poderia ter mais programas para startups, mesmo com algumas possibilidades gratuitos, pesa um pouco no bolso no fim do mês.

Alternatives envisagées 

Google Cloud

Logiciel antérieur 

Google Cloud

Avantages

Amazon EC2 is a market leader in the cloud industry to provide compute capacity. You can host webservices on the Amazon EC2 cloud and pay as per what you use. It is the best solution as you don't have to think about maintaining servers and spend on web services hosting infrastructure. Also Amazon EC2 handles the security aspects of the hosted services via access controls. A lot of webservices written in different programming languages can be hosted on this platform.

Inconvénients

There are no limitations for this product. They are a market leader and their services are highly configurable.

Avantages

The best thing about EC2 Instance is -
1. It is easy to create by just clicks
2. Easy to access or integrate with Other AWS services like RDS
3. Easily we can change the RAM of the server as per the requirement

Inconvénients

What I disliked the most about AWS EC2 is the documentation part is little complex to understand for the new user

Avantages

I like the on-demand features of Amazon EC2. It's very easy to spin up a powerful VM, scale it up or down, and switch it off when not in use. It gives us a very easy way to provision computing capacity as our need comes.

Inconvénients

I think it'll be nice to have some VM operations to be doable in the AWS console, like installing SSH keys, etc. These are readily available in Google Cloud console, in comparison.

Avantages

capacidade absurda e segura no sistema operacional

Inconvénients

achei um pouco confuso e complexo para iniciantes.

Avantages

Once you have an infrastructure created on AWS creating instances on EC2 is easy , networking capabilities are very powerful and give you a lot of flexibility for different use cases. You also have a wide variety of options to choose from.

Inconvénients

It's too heavy for very simple use cases, for example if you want to deploy a wordpress server or a simple django application you will need to understand and take into account a lot of networking settings. It's not cheaper than other services like DigitalOcean or Linode, and the heavy-lifting is real

Avantages

- Very Easy to use and configuration- Amazon provide free tier for new user- You can easily real time monitor server - Easily take the data backup and recover- Good in auto scaling, load balancer

Inconvénients

- Complex to manage for new user- New UI is not good- Sometime can't find the oldest version OS

Avantages

Nothing interesting, just the same old slugged things and keep changing.

Inconvénients

Horrible services, bad support, keeping charging when their instances not working properly.

Avantages

This tool is extremely versatile, serves as a vps, and as a base instance for many other aws tools, it allows me to connect to external aws platforms simply, it has a high level of configuration, customization and security. I can specifically choose each hardware component that is needed according to the needs of the projects, and the platform is ready to use in a few minutes, in addition to having a very extensive configuration panel, with many configurations, in addition to a console, which allows Work through commands directly, without opening the instance, its download and upload speed is very high and quite stable.

Inconvénients

It is difficult for me to think of a negative aspect on this platform, however, what must be taken into account is that it is a fairly complete and complex tool to use, so the learning curve is quite steep.

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 

Google Cloud

Pourquoi passer à Amazon EC2

Previous experience with AWS platform.

Avantages

There are following reason which i like most,

1. We can create multiple instance in same time with same configuration.
2. There is available all types of hardware where we can choose hardware as per our requirement.
3. we can take snapshot as per our requirement.
4. It is cost effective.

Inconvénients

As per my point of view, there is not any negative point.

Avantages

El Software tiene muchas cosas positivas pero le faltan diferentes cambios que significativamente yo no puedo dar.

Inconvénients

Lo menos que me ha gustado del software es que no tiene la capacidad de entender al cliente

Avantages

What I like most about Amazon EC2 is that it is a tool that has many uses is very versatile and allows me to customize the requirements that I need according to the project that I am developing, I can increase the amount of ram, hdd, processor memory easily from the website, it also has a high level of security, and allows you to manually configure many functions, such as ports, tasks, the control panel from the website is very intuitive and with many features, it also has a command line for more cases specific.

Inconvénients

It is an easy-to-use tool for basic use, however for something more specific it is really complex, the most difficult to learn to use is the console, it has many commands.

Avantages

- Easy to install any OS and setup EC2 instance- Amazon provide 1 year free tier for new user- Easily take the snapshot of OS and share with other account.- Good customer support and provide instance resolution via chat, email and phone.- EC2 allow scalling , load balancer and security port.

Inconvénients

- It's difficult to manager & operate for new user.- EC2 may take the addition cost for data transfer.

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

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

This Amazon tool is really useful since it has great advantages that is why I like it for several reasons being the main one that is extremely flexible, easy to use, easy to access, requires no maintenance and only pays for what is used, account with an interface that is very intuitive in addition to that in case of having doubts about it provides tutorials or a really compressible documentation so there is no way of not being able to understand its use, also it can be customized to cover each one of the needs that search the user thus being able to host any application, or web service of business or personal interest.

Inconvénients

This tool works very well so finding faults as such is difficult, the only drawback is that locating a support team directly can be complicated but it is not impossible.

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.