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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems.

    $0.01

    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis

    Amazon FSx

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAmazon FSx is a cloud storage service designed to make it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a range of workloads boasting reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. As a fully managed service, it handles hardware provisioning, patching, and backups, and supports four widely-used file systems: NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, Windows File Server, and Lustre.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Amazon FSx
    Editions & Modules
    Data Transfer
    $0.00 - $0.09
    per GB
    On-Demand
    $0.0042 - $6.528
    per Hour
    EBS-Optimized Instances
    $0.005
    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis
    Carrier IP Addresses
    $0.005 - $0.10
    T4g Instances
    $0.04
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES
    T2, T3 Instances
    $0.05 ($0.096)
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES (Windows)
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Amazon FSx
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Amazon FSx
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    24 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    25 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    26 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    21 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Amazon FSx
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon FSx
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    9.5
    21 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Amazon FSx
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.520 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.820 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools9.120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.320 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support9.620 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls9.820 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation9.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon FSx
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    -
    Ratings
    Amazon FSx
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Versioning00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    File search00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Security & Administration
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon FSx
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    -
    Ratings
    Amazon FSx
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    User and role management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    File organization00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Device management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Platform
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon FSx
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    -
    Ratings
    Amazon FSx
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Performance00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Reliability00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Storage Reports00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Amazon FSx
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (67 ratings)
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Amazon FSx
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Suitable for companies that are looking for performance at a competitive price, flexibility to switch instance type even with RI, flexibility to add-on IOPS, option to lower running cost with the regular introduction of new instance type that comes with higher performance but at a lower cost.
    Incentivized
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    Amazon AWS
    - For any enterprise-grade storage, this is the best option. - EDA workloads are very strong with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and NetApp's FlexCache technologies. - Random read workloads such as OLTP are awesome on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. - File Services are the best in class on FSxN. - DR sites from ONTAP on-premises are amazing.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Huge Diverse range of machine shapes are available which cater to our demand.
    • Ability to combine the machines and integrate them with any other service in AWS (Ex: RDS, S3)
    • Handling performance and scalability using auto-scaling, ELB configuration and high performance machine shapes.
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    Amazon AWS
    • Enterprise grade unified storage in the cloud
    • Multiprotocol access
    • PV for EKS
    • Data mobility
    • Data security
    • Integration with NetApp Cloud Manager
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • The choices on AMIs, instance types and additional configuration can be overwhelming for any non-DevOps person.
    • The pricing information should be more clear (than only providing the hourly cost) when launching the instance. AWS DynamoDB gives an estimated monthly cost when creating tables, and I would love to see similar cost estimation showing on EC2 instances individually, as not all developers gets access to the actual bills.
    • The term for reserving instances are at least 12 months. With instance types changing so fast and better instances coming out every other day, it's really hard to commit to an existing instance type for 1 or more years at a time.
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    Amazon AWS
    • Data Protection from AWS console
    • Advance Matrix
    • FlexGroups creating as part of AWS console
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    You an start using EC2 instances immediately, is so easy and intuitive to start using them, EC2 has wizard to create the EC2 instances in the web browser or if you are code savvy you can create them with simple line in the CLI or using an SDK. Once you are comfortable using EC2, you can even automate the process.
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    Amazon AWS
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    AWS's support is good overall. Not outstanding, but better than average. We have had very little reason to engage with AWS support but in our limited experience, the staff has been knowledgeable, timely and helpful. The only negative is actually initiating a service request can be a bit of a pain.
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    Amazon AWS
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon EC2 is super flexible compared to the PaaS offerings like Heroku Platform and Google App Engine since with Amazon EC2, we have access to the terminal. In terms of pricing, it's basically just the same as Google Compute Engine. The deciding factor is Amazon EC2's native integration with other AWS services since they're all in the same cloud platform.
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    Amazon AWS
    I have not worked with other reliable and powerful platform that is as reliable as this product. This platform has given us room to concentrate on more productive activities leaving our data under a safe system. It automates file transfer and saves time in uploading documents across all team members. It interlinks all our applications systems to enhance teamwork and increase production.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • It reduced the need for heavy on-premises instances. Also, it completely eliminates maintenance of the machine. Their SLA criteria are also matching business needs. Overall IAAS is the best option when information is not so crucial to post on the cloud.
    • It makes both horizontal and vertical scaling really easy. This keeps your infrastructure up and running even while you are increasing the capacity or facing more traffic. This leads to having better customer satisfaction.
    • If you do not choose your instance type suitable for your business, it may incur lots of extra costs.
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    Amazon AWS
    • It improved our TCO by optimizing storage costs between SSDs and S3
    • It speeded our TTM with speedy deployment and orchestration
    • It removed needed expertise from our engineers
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