Amazon ECS-Optimized Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) x86_64 AMI
Amazon Web Services | 2.0.20230912Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2.0.20230109 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Fastest provision and maximum availability for basically any application
What do you like best about the product?
I like that I can launch EC2 instances with a few clicks and with the right amount of computing power from the beginning while maintaining the possibility to scale it in the future with a few clicks as well. This would have taken months in an on-premise environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Rebooting time on some instances especially first tiers of small and nano instances can take substantial time to reboot.
You can't easily move the instances from one availability region to the other. You can create images, but the images don't appear in the other region. This might be improved in the future.
You can't easily move the instances from one availability region to the other. You can create images, but the images don't appear in the other region. This might be improved in the future.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For the business EC2 container service has improved:
- Scaling takes now a few clicks.
- Provisioning time, seconds instead of months to get new equipment
- Reduced cost by using on-demand computing power, instead of paying for idle
- Scaling takes now a few clicks.
- Provisioning time, seconds instead of months to get new equipment
- Reduced cost by using on-demand computing power, instead of paying for idle
Recommendations to others considering the product:
EC2 containers auto-scalling or on-demand scalling, the huge range of OS options is totally amazing. This is where the industry is heading so it's a good consideration for your infrastructure.
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Powerful yet simple cloud provider
What do you like best about the product?
1. Makes it so easy to bring up an instance. It takes under 30 seconds to bring up a working ec2 machine which is just awesome!
2. Wide range of memory and compute configurations to choose from.
3. per second billing, pay only for what you use.
2. Wide range of memory and compute configurations to choose from.
3. per second billing, pay only for what you use.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Amazon web services has a really outdated UI.
2. With azure coming up with more cost effective plans, AWS need to innovate further.
2. With azure coming up with more cost effective plans, AWS need to innovate further.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In our company we use EC2 to bring up instances and run Hadoop and Spark. Instances like r3.4xlarge are exceptional if you want to a powerful cluster
Excellent for Data Science Projects
What do you like best about the product?
Very quick to spin up and highly configurable
What do you dislike about the product?
For large data projects, price and speed don't always scale
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Docker containers to support our Spark needs. The quick out of the box solution has minimized our time performing slow software installs and otherwise being overly dependent on IT.
Deploying Hadoop on Amazon EC2 with ease
What do you like best about the product?
Amazon provides what they advertise. They have various types of machines depending your requirement ranging from compute intensive machines to high IO machines. I created a 5 node Hadoop cluster with ease on Amazon EC2 nodes. They also have a lot prebuilt machines installed with all the required softwares/tools you need.
What do you dislike about the product?
Amazon services are a little expensive than its competitor google cloud.You may not find a lot of options on google cloud as compared to Amazon but may cost you less. It would be great if machines computation/cost can be reduced during non-peak hours dynamically. There are some companies such as Qubole that reduces your computation cost by reducing the number of AWS machines when not needed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Amazon follows pay-per-use model whether its software, platform or infrastructure. Its a great way to build Proof of concepts without investing in a infrastructure that might not be sufficient later for your development needs. The services are elastic i.e. you can choose the type/number of machines as much as you need.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I highly recommend using Amazon EC2 services. You will be free from Server Administration tasks and worry about unplanned downtime of servers in peak hours. Easy to scale up as your company/project grows which will reduce your upfront investment on hardware. You can also compare it Google cloud services to reduce your implementation cost.
Unintuitive interface, but useful software
What do you like best about the product?
After getting my container setup, it was easy to build my service on top of it.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface isn't particularly great. Some of the controls do not provide adequate feedback.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have been using EC2 Containers to improve the maintainability of my software and ease deployment. I was previously using non-containerized solutions that were complex. I've managed to save a lot of time going this route.
Easy to use compute resource
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to set up and use. I don't like the max price bidding system but if you're already using the AWS system this is probably the easiest to set up and use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Needs more diversity in the EC2 instances offered. I feel like this service could be cheaper. You need to be comfortabe with using the command line ,ssh, bash and writing shell scripts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use EC2 containers and Amazon ELB's to service our web applications.
Easy to use! Can be pricy in small batches
What do you like best about the product?
Super easy to start up. Trial period is friendly enough and gives you a good idea of what you can do scale wise. Interface for launching is quite easy and accessing and integration was simple enough (for what we had to do anyways). There is a TON of documentation written by amazon itself and more courses are getting added to Udemy, Coursera, pluralsight, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Small-medium stuff can be super expensive and not worth it compared to other solutions. I would say try to keep it super small or scale big to get a better deal. But it is on a “month to month” basis for most of the stuff so you can assess as you go if you don’t mind investing time into a pilot
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Individual governed websites, repos, environments for different users.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it out! There’s a ton of tutorials and free or cheap trials you can use to see if it would work for you
The only containerised solution for the AWS ecosystem
What do you like best about the product?
Integrates seamlessly with Elastic Beanstalk - providing a simple and effective containerised deployment solution.
Reliable and predictable when setup and working.
Reliable and predictable when setup and working.
What do you dislike about the product?
Slow to startup, can be very difficult to debug startup issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Part of our automated CI/CD solution. Allows easy blue/green deployments
Excellent product, need to know your stuff
What do you like best about the product?
AWS offers a dizzying array of options, features and configurations that make it easier to configure and deploy a VM than having to build it yourself from scratch. Pretty much any kind of OS you would want for a VM are available including several distros of Linux, Unix, Windows, Docker and more. A free tier is offered that allows you to use a micro instance for playing around/testing/small website, which is great way to offer a trail (as opposed to a time-based limit). In fact, many of AWS' offerings have a free tier that allow a good amount of play before any need of money. There is support for everything you'd expect such as multi-region deployment, load-balancing, monitoring, alerts, access security, firewall/network configuration, remote access through SSH or AWS CLI and more. Most importantly I would say is that because it's part of AWS, EC2s have access to all the other amazing offerings AWS provides such as AWS API messaging, lambda functions, dynamo databases, auto-scaling ElasticBeanstalks and more.
What do you dislike about the product?
Because of the complexity and amount of options allowed, it can be intimidating/difficult to quickly spin up a new VM. Also, you have to be quite familiar with other AWS products to know how to get configurations just right. Also, sometimes it's difficult to know what may bump you into a paid-tier when you are evaluating a free-tier product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With AWS EC2s there is no worry about running and managing our own servers, which helps with cost and monitoring, especially if something goes down. And being inside AWS there is easy access to wide host of tools and features we don't have to worry about installing, configuring, troubleshooting just to get it to work. If we want a feature or a component, we just select it and launch it.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The EC2 container service from AWS is a great option for spinning up and running VMs and containers.
The leader !!!
What do you like best about the product?
Amazon EC2 supports Docker containers and lets you run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost associated in using Amazon EC2
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Many of our cloud products are hosted on AWS. EC2 encourages scalable deployment of applications by providing a web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image to configure a VM.
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