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Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 173 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Amazon Web Services - **Location**: Seattle, US - **Founded**: 2006 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Usage Based (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Amazon EC2 offers a free tier for the T2 and T3 instances, as well as the new T4g.micro instance. When you are ready to upgrade, choose one of the many pricing options available for your organization. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - Access Controls/Permissions - Backup and Recovery - Collaboration Tools - Compliance Management - Configuration Management - Data Import/Export - Data Migration - Data Security - Data Storage Management - Data Visualization Software - Data Warehousing - Load Balancing Software - Log Access - Network Monitoring Software - Performance Monitoring - Predictive Analytics Software - Real-Time Monitoring - Reporting & Statistics - Reporting/Analytics - Search/Filter - Secure Data Storage - Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management - Third-Party Integrations - Threat Intelligence - Trend Analysis - Virtual Server - Virtualization Software ## Integrations (3 total) - Amazon CloudWatch - Amazon RDS - Amazon S3 ## Category - [Database Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/18/database-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Database Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/18/database-management/software) - [Big Data Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/30851/big-data/software) - [Cloud Security Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/31344/cloud-security/software) - [IaaS Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/32015/infrastructure-as-a-service-solutions/software) - [Virtual Machine Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/31078/virtual-machine/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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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. > > Overall it is amazing to use as the best feature about EC2 is the auto-scalability which saves a lot of money compared to other solutions. ----- ### "Good virtual machine service, AMI catalog needs work, auto scaling is magic" — 5.0/5 > **Monica** | *May 28, 2025* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **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. > > 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. ----- ### "EC2 automation/simplicity all in one platform" — 5.0/5 > **Richard** | *June 6, 2025* | Real Estate | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The EC2 mechanism works great, rent when required, scalable and on demand computing makes this a great platform to use. > > **Cons**: Whilst it is cost effective, there are times when the cost is prohibitive for some small tasks, but otherwise it works as expected > > It is a great tool, easy to use, easy to setup, clonable and each task can have a deedicated instance to run. ----- ### "Scalable and Highly Available EC2 System" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *February 13, 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: It made my backend very easy to scale and highly available without lagging. > > **Cons**: It was not beginner friendly had many complex terminology. > > When I shift to ec2, it had many features like security groups, auto scaling and load balancer which made my application highly available and it was cost effective. ----- ### "My first Experience of EC2" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *February 15, 2025* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: The thing I liked about EC2 is I can get any operating system image to run my projects. Also without worrying about cpu load I can get as high specifications as I want > > **Cons**: The UI is little complex as I get to any options when I was just learning it got me too much confused. > > I would like to rate it 8 out of 10 as my most of the work got done by using EC2 only. But there are still some complexity in UI as I mentioned above. ----- Page: 1 / 8\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ca/software/219781/ec2?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.ca/software/219781/ec2) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data