# Amazon EC2 Pricing 2026 | Capterra

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# Pricing for Amazon EC2

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## [Amazon EC2](https://www.capterra.com/p/219781/EC2/) has **1** pricing plan

-   Yes, has free trial
-   No free version

**Credit Card Required:** Yes

**Discount:** Information not available

### Basic

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**Pricing Model:** Usage Based

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## What do others say about [Amazon EC2](https://www.capterra.com/p/219781/EC2/) pricing?

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Value For Money[4.3(173)](https://www.capterra.com/p/219781/EC2/reviews/)

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Monica G.

Cloud Engineer

Telecommunications, 51-200 employees

Used the software for: 2+ years

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Overall Rating

5.0

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Ease of Use

3.0

Customer Service

3.0

Features

4.0

Value for Money

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

80%

8/10

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Source: Capterra

May 28, 2025

"Good virtual machine service, AMI catalog needs work, auto scaling is magic"

**Overall:** Overall, good virtual machine service. The initial setup is difficult, but once done the service is reliable. Easy to setup a highly available application with EC2.

**Pros:** The Auto Scaling Groups is where the magic happens. This helps with auto-healing and highly available applications. The launch templates are extremely customizable. The user data (pre boot scripts) are helpful. I appreciate the 3rd party integrations, like our CI/CD tool. The integration with auto scaling groups and ALBs are a must.

**Cons:** Searching for AMIs in the AWS console is clunky. There should be better ways to search. The initial setup is tricky, but once you build one image and launch an instance, the deployment process gets easier. Occasionally, I will have to stop/start an instance because the underlying host has an issue. Thank goodness for autoscaling.

vidya P.

Cloud engineer

Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

Used the software for: 2+ years

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Overall Rating

5.0

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Ease of Use

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

Features

5.0

Value for Money

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

90%

9/10

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

April 10, 2025

"EC2 is the way to compute on cloud"

**Overall:** Overall this is the first of its kind on cloud to provide compute service and it evolved since its introduced to finest levels

**Pros:** Amazon EC2 comes with wide range of compute capacity and processors including graviton which are cheaper bundled with performance

**Cons:** It can get expensive if not monitored closely on the EC2 usage.

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