Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are being used for our production, sandbox, and development ERP environment, PRTG network monitoring and Veeam and Commvault backup solutions. It addresses the application performance issue comparing to other Cloud service provider which despite being configured with higher CPU and RAM resources still underperform Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Additionally, AWS regularly releases new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) with higher performance but at a lower cost.
Pros
Instance type
Storage options
Purchase model
Security
Cons
Allow Spot instances to auto switch to on-demand when the capacity is need, instead of sudden interruption
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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Manager in Information Technology (Building Materials company, 51-200 employees)
