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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 4 - Reviews of Amazon EC2 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 76-100 of 173 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VR Verified Reviewer Project Lead Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One of Best Cloud Service Provider" July 30, 2021 4.0 Pros This is a very secure, high performing and highly available server. Cons Its UI is a bit confusing for the starters and updating the servers takes time as we need to apply every patch manually. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Backend Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "The best scalable & bill friendly cloud service." November 8, 2023 5.0 Pros 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. Cons 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. Review Source RC Ryan C. Network Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Amazon EC2" August 24, 2018 5.0 Pros Servers of almost any size in minutes. Change the specs up or down, in seconds with no penalties. Geographically redundant Cons It seems like EC2,and AWS in general, is geared to be used ONLY by developers. A lot of their tools and utilities can only be used via cli or api. While i understand most of it is to aid in development of applications of many varieties, there are a few basic tasks ive come across that should have been fairly simple to do, nut i had to write an entire program myself to make it work. Not everyone who uses AWS services are coders. Make it a bit easier for the rest of us. Documentation can also be a bit spotty, but its pretty good overall. Review Source DW Duane W. B2B Sales Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Worst Support" August 18, 2022 1.0 worst, billings all ways contentious, support is retarded. Pros Nothing interesting, just the same old slugged things and keep changing. Cons Horrible services, bad support, keeping charging when their instances not working properly. Reason for choosing Amazon EC2 Heard of it but not good at all. Review Source Mahek V. Intern Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Best Cloud Platform to deploy and serve your application" August 6, 2021 4.0 Pros The instance creation and load balancing with the pre configured VM is the best part about it. The VM configuration can easily be customised and an application can be deployed and managed. Specifying the security groups with your firewall access requirements is much more easier and manageable. Cons The only thing to dislike about it is It has so many feature and don’t have a proper documentation so it becomes difficult for the beginner to start and deploy applications. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Developer/Build Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Very convenient, saves a lot of time and money" September 5, 2015 4.0 My company has switched to EC2 for a variety of our servers. Being able to offload the infrastructure work to AWS saves us a lot of time and hassle with our IT department, and It has been incredibly convenient to be able to template servers with a single click, and bring up additional boxes for testing or debugging, and just delete them whenever we're done. In fact, with no real training on the product, I was able to get a full stack of servers up and running in under an hour. Doing this in house sometimes takes weeks of meetings and back and forth between departments. Pros Low cost, highly customizable to any configuration. A variety of operating systems are averrable and can be bought up at the click of a button. Third party software is also available through amazon marketplace, and most tools can be licensed through AWS and even come preinstalled and preconfigured on EC2 images. It makes building a scalable, high availability architecture an almost trivial task. Cons Monitoring - AWS offers cloud watch monitoring for EC2 instances, but we still found ourselves reaching out to a third party vendor for a true APM solution for the software running on our EC2 instances. It would be great if we could define what makes our app available to an end user and get reports with an availability percentage and aped score at the end of each month to hand to a client and ensure them that we're meeting our SLA. Right now, we have to go to New Relic for this, which is quite expensive. Review Source AT Akash T. Quality Assurance Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great Cloud Virtualization software" March 3, 2023 5.0 Overall, Amazon EC2 is the best cloud computing software for virtualization. We can easily install any OS within one min and save our time. It's powerful cloud computing platform. Pros \- 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 Cons \- Complex to manage for new user- New UI is not good- Sometime can't find the oldest version OS Review Source Daniel Z. Software Quality Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great for spinning up instances of our site" May 27, 2020 5.0 We use it as a development team to spin up servers and build instances of our software for testing purposes. Pros Amazon EC2 is a convenient way to spin up an instance of a site for testing purposes by basically mimicking the installation and configuration that you would have on a computer. Cons I would be nice if the overall process could be a little less painful to set up and to integrate. But overall I think it works really well. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Quality Assurance Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Scale with Amazon EC2" March 18, 2022 5.0 Pros 1\. Ease of Use 2. Scalability 3. Availability of wide range of linux and window distributions 4. Quick and Easy spin of virtual servers 5. Support of all the major development languages 6. Spin up the server as per need and save cost on your requirement 7. Resize your instances based on changes in the requirement 8. Flexible Pricing Options. 9. Secure and Reliable in or out of network accessibility 10. Snapshot of Instances can be saved on S3 storage in case you need to use it later. and many more...!! Cons Learning curve is there, apart from there nothing is bad about Amazon EC2 services. Review Source WM Winston M. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A great choice for scalable projects." September 30, 2019 5.0 My experience in general with this software has been very positive, it has served me for different types of projects, and even projects outside of aws, since the tool can be easily integrated with other sources, be it other websites, databases, computers, etc. It also integrates very well with the other tools of aws. Pros 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. Cons 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. Review Source MB Melikşah B. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "EC2 Experience" January 11, 2022 5.0 Pros Easy to manage the instances and databases. Really good documentation and it was quiet easy to access to my instances and databases. I was able to quite good manage them. Customer support was awesome they helped me a lot about my problems. Cons The network and load balancer things was hard to understand. I had problems on them it was not easy to solve loadbalancer side especially Review Source Abhinav S. Cloud Technical Solutions Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "There is no match to Amazon EC2" November 17, 2022 5.0 Pros The features and integration options EC2 offers is amazing and unmatchable. I have been a keen user of EC2 since years and I like the elasticity it provides which also gives flexibility to pay as per exact usage. Cons The auto disable and turn off feature sometimes does not work as expected. I wish we had more automation in place to handle such scenarios. Alternatives considered [Azure DevOps Server](https://www.capterra.com/p/177262/Team-Foundation-Server/) Review Source AM Antonio M. Tech Support Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best solution for all your computational needs" February 4, 2021 5.0 We used it to host the web app we were developing, together with all other websites we were making for that business. We even hosted our newspaper website WordPress setup with Amazon. The developers were extremely happy with Amazon services and were in touch with people from Amazon who were amazingly nice whenever I interacted with them. Pros Whatever we needed, Amazon supported. They even had a Wordpress hosting environment that we could transfer our newspaper website to. Cons The price was not low as we had a need for a large number of machines and the amounts quickly added up, but it was still manageable. Review Source vB vaibhav B. AI engineer Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Amazon EC2: Best VM out there! " June 21, 2022 5.0 Pros I love how we can easily customize the virtual machine and how good amazon's customer service is. Our company uses it as a VM and we also run our products on it. It is very good and also has specific compliance with respect to micro industry such as ours.(medical) Cons Little complex to use at first, but you eventually get the hang of it. I also feel the payment dashboard should be more simpler. Review Source PC Paolo C. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Easy way to launch server instance on the cloud" June 25, 2021 5.0 I have used EC2 alone or in connection with other AWS services (like EBC, EKS or CloudFormation) Pros I am an EC2 user since almost a decade now. My favourite things are: 1) super quick way to launch an instance on the cloud 2) super easy way to scale the instance in case more resources are required Cons It is a bit on the expensive side, however if you can commit to 1-3 years you can use a reserved instance and you will save bucks. Or, if you need instances randomly you could use the spot instances which can let you save up to 90% Review Source TK Tigran K. Business Owner Real Estate Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Takes some time to figure out, but ideal for the job to be done" July 22, 2021 5.0 I love it. The job is done and I'm using the first year trial. Pricing beyond the trial period is also reasonable and I'm more than willing to pay for this service. Pros This is a cloud web server and does exactly what many people want - having a stable machine without the hassle of installing and maintaining your own hardware. We use it as a remote Linux server with cron jobs running on it and collecting data from the web, and producing a database for our clients. We also host our website there. Cons A little difficult to start working with. The product has its own terminology and libraries to use that makes you overwhelmed at first. However, there are some third-party videos on youtube that help you to get started. Review Source BM Ben M. Head of Development Technologies Internet Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Immediate access to unlimited server computing potential" April 23, 2018 5.0 Pros EC2 is an incredible service offering unlimited computing power for any server applications, and best of all offering it 24/7 at the drop of a hat. Scale up or down automatically with elastic load balancers. Assign reusable, dedicated IPs. Create images quickly for use in duplicating servers. Cons The interface is complex and not very intuitive. Pricing can be hard to understand or calculate ahead of time. Amazon support isn't readily available without paying a premium for it. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Perfect for temp computers" October 28, 2021 4.0 Its simple and elegant concept which has saved me thousands of dollars in buying temporary powerful machines. Pros I love how easy it is to launch and use EC2 Services. Its very cost efficient Cons Amazon does not have 24/7 customer service available incase you don't know how to use it so you will need to read some documentation and watch some videos before going into it. Review Source Juan Carlos G. Lider de area de desarrollo IA Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Your computer on the cloud " February 11, 2021 5.0 Very good option for cloud computing i recomend it to anyone but you should be ready to read everything to avoid unnecesary costs. Pros Easy to setup any machine needed in your enterprise Capable of setup specific images and replicate them several times. Compatible with most OS in te market Windows ,linux ,etc. several prize options. Several hardware options and can be scaled anytime Cons We have an issue with incorrect setup of elastic ip of a computed and it cost us like 250 Dollars for unsetup static ip. Review Source Les P. Used the software for: 2+ years ### "pretty good for tech heads" December 21, 2017 4.0 Pros Extremely customizable ... you can set it up virtually any way you like to with virtually any operating system. Get your automated deployment system working in conjunction with this and you are set. Cons you have to figure it out for yourself. The tutorials are quite dense and the cusomizability makes it complex. Everything is an option with choices that you may not understand or be aware of. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Engineering Manager Media Production Used the software for: 2+ years ### "EC2 - a great cloud offering" December 18, 2020 5.0 Overall I'm really pleased with AWS in general, from EC2 instances to s3 storage, to all the other services they offer. Its a great cloud option. Pros AWS EC2 offering is a great option for utilizing "the cloud", it's one of the best cloud options I've used on many levels Cons For me there was a slight learning curve to the command line interface, but thats to be expected, all the cloud providers would have this learning curve. Review Source David C. Founder Internet Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Amazon EC2" April 28, 2016 5.0 We've been using Amazon EC2 for years and the way it allows us to buy high computing requirements without having to make an upfront investment as we're prototyping is really useful. You still need to know your way around servers, automation, security, etc but it's very useful. Pros Understanding how to deploy for the cloud is essential. Once you know how to do it, you can easily end up with an extremely resilient infrastructure which would have typically required a large investment. Cons To use and automate your infrastructure as well as use the other associated products, you will need to be quite advanced in computing technologies. Review Source Yogesh J. Educator Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Amazon EC2 is great service for virtual Machine " October 24, 2020 5.0 The overall experience is very good. Very good documentation is provided by Amazon. It is very easy to create a Virtual machine on EC2. Security provided by Amazon is also very good. Pros Amazon EC2 is a very great product I used. I used an EC2 instance for web server creation. It is very simple to use. It's very easy to create a Linux instance on EC2. Cons I am thinking that the pricing of EC2 is a little bit expensive. Review Source Nitin G. Junior Dev Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Amazon EC2 - Amazing cloud service" June 12, 2021 5.0 We are using Amazon EC2 for approx 2 years and it had been a great experience, user-friendly and easy to use. Also dashboard is very informative and we don't have to manage something else explicitly. Pros The best advantage of Amazon EC2 is that we can choose VM according to our requirement and deploy instance on it, and we Pay only when used, so it also reduces the pricing aspect. It is good in terms of reliability and availibilty. Cons There are no such disadvantages of Amazon EC2 except that sometimes it goes into deadlock(not frequently), leading to automatic reboot. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior member of technical staff Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Good quality machine with room for improvement." April 12, 2019 3.0 Pros Pretty easy to use. Wide documentation is available in case you get stuck somewhere. And good quality machines. Cons For some reason, the p3.16xlarge (8 tesla v100 GPUs) machine is outperformed by p3.8xlarge machine (4 tesla v100 GPUs) (tested on multiple GPU supported model). I was using it for ML training and p3.8xlarge was taking 27 to 28 seconds for an epoch where p3.16xlarge was taking 31 to 32 seconds for an epoch even though it is a larger machine !!!!!! It has twice computing power on paper but that does not reflect in actual performance. I am not sure what might be the reason but paying twice but slower machine does not make any sence. 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