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All types of businesses and organizations seeking a tool providing secure and resizable compute capacity for virtually any workload
About Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 delivers the broadest choice of compute, networking (up to 400 Gbps), and storage services purpose-built to optimize price performance for ML projects. Build, test, and sign on-demand macOS workloads. Access environments in minutes, dynamically scale capacity as needed, and benefit from AWS’s pay-as-you-go pricing. Access the on-demand infrastructure and capacity you need to run HPC applications faster and cost-effectively. Amazon EC2 delivers secure, reliable, high-performance, and cost-effective compute infrastructure to meet demanding business needs.
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Amazon EC2 Reviews
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Pros: High availability.
Seamless integration with other AWS services.
GPU instances available for graphically-intensive tasks.
Lots of customizable options.
Included in the free tier of AWS.
Pay as you use pricing model.
Better pricing than competitors (like Azure).Cons: It may take time for new users to set it up as there are lot of options and no 'wizard' setup guide.
Overall: EC2 is probably the most important service in the AWS suite and rightly so. It is a highly customizable server solution on AWS cloud that lets you spin up a new instance or scale up instantly.
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Pros: Easy to setup & use.
Various categories of hardware with multiple pricing options.
Highly scalable with Auto Scaling Groups.
Large number of pre-built machine images (AMIs).
Ability to create custom images.
Secure & high availability.Cons: Although there has been a recent overhaul of the interface, there could be more improvements to make various options and features easier to understand and use.
Overall: Amazon EC2 forms the backbone of Amazon Web Services. It is one of the best (if not the best) service to run virtual instances on cloud. It has multiple options to choose from based on speed, memory and other requirements, making it cost-effective.
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