Amazon EC2

Pros

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

Cons

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

Pros

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.

Cons

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

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Pros

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

Cons

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

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Pros

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

Cons

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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

Pros

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.

Cons

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

Pros

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

Cons

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

Pros

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

Cons

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.

Pros

It provide best firewall and security features.

Cons

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

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Pros

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.

Cons

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

Pros

Amazon EC2 has all the power to deploy virtual machines in minutes. It was so easy that I was shocked the first time I took away my afraid, read the documentation and launched my first VM, which saves me when the pandemic started, and I had to work 100% online.

Cons

There are hundreds of settings that you must to keep on eye on it, because every one of them could charge you with undesired fees. So, be aware of terminate every Instance that you had created, backup your data and erase every storage to avoid surprises in upcoming bills.

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Pros

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

Cons

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

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Pros

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

Cons

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

Pros

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

Cons

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

Pros

- 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.

Cons

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

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Pros

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

Cons

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

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Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Pros

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

Cons

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.

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Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Pros

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

Cons

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

Pros

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

Cons

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Pros

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

Cons

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

Pros

I like the way EC2 provide flexibility to choose different kind of instances based on the requirement. It also provide flexibility to configure it as well as take it down automatically based on need

Cons

I can't think of anything which I don't like

Pros

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

Cons

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

Pros

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.

Cons

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

Pros

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

Cons

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.

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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.

Pros

Accessibility, ease of use, all age friendly

Cons

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

Pros

The cloud platform is worth the money and the ease of use need to be appreciated

Cons

the user management and setup initially found to be tough but once used its looks perfect

Pros

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

Cons

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

Pros

- Easy to use and deployment- Easily install any OS in EC2 - Create budget alert- Amazon provide 1 year free tier for new year- EC2 provide good featue like auto scaling, load balancer and data backup- Transfer snapshot backup from one account to another account- Good customer support

Cons

- EC2 is charges for data transfer- It's little bit complex to manager for new user

Pros

- 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

Cons

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

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

Pros

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

Cons

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

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

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Pros

It is a really scalable and robust cloud computing service. Most of the internet rely on it

Cons

Sometimes the control panel can look a bit overwhelming in particular in regards to the billing and users management

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Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

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I liked Elastice Load Balancer the most cause if there an issue with server the ELB takes care of Auto scaling the server.

Cons

There is as such no thing that I least liked I genuinely like EC2 that why I use it myself and also in my company.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

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Pros

* 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

Cons

* 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

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Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

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