Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) vs. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

344 Reviews and Ratings

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

338 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	Amazon 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 S3	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	Amazon S3 is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services. It's key features are storage management and monitoring, access management and security, data querying, and data transfer.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Amazon S3

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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Pricing Offerings
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Amazon S3
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Amazon S3
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Verified User Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Patrick Plaisance CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Information Technology at Pachyderm Consulting (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) We have been using EC2 for so much longer, that even though we use Azure's other features and services more then the equivalent AWS features and services, we don't usually go for Azure's VM offerings first over EC2. I guess that that means this recommendation is mostly based … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon's been leading the way in the past few years in cloud computing and have easily become a name we can trust. When we looked at options, nothing compared to EC2 when you looked at the scalability and flexibility of the product. For the needs we were trying to meet, these … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) EC2 is a much more advantageous compared with the competitors because it has a much better console, configuration, auto-scalability, uptime, and many other features that are way better than other services I have seen so far. It also provides great backup services integrated … Incentivized Helpful? Ranjeet Shah Sr. Full Stack Engineer in Information Technology at Farmers Insurance (Entertainment, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Performs well and competitive price. Clear Documentation would be another factor. I have found sometimes documentations are confusing and misleading. Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas in Information Technology at Consultor independiente de software (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Compared to other IaaS providers such as Google Compute Engine, EC2 stands out due to its ease of use, good performance, and low price. Lately, Google Compute Engine seems to have improved noticeably, but we stack with EC2 for the trust and quality that has generated is in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for me is the easy choice for servers. There are so many tools out there, specifically terraform and packer, that allow easy integration with EC2. It is great for any sized company. I have also used Google and Digital Ocean, but my first … Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Shandelson IT Manager in Information Technology at Learner's Digest International (E-Learning, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) I have minimal experience with AWS alternatives. I used Azure for a short time, but found the console to be confusing. The number of services offered was also much smaller. Incentivized Helpful? Anudeep Palanki Application Developer in Information Technology at Monsanto Company (Farming, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) DigitalOcean and Heroku are two other leading competitors to the EC2 in terms of the type of instances they offer. Digital Ocean: Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) We have evaluated other public cloud providers such as IBM Bluemix and Microsoft Azure. Our choice has clearly been on EC2 due to the expansive set of features and suitability to different workload types, flexibility around On-Demand instances, Reserved instances and spot … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Schroeder Full Stack Developer in Engineering at Journey Group, Inc. (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) If you want to scale your product very far, AWS is the tool to use – no doubt. It takes a lot longer to use than other products and is not trivial to use, but I have confidence my products can scale to meet the demands of millions of people with AWS. I do not have the same … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) The other big players standing against AWS EC2 are Azure, Google Cloud, and Salesforce, but still, they are growing in their field and stand far behind where EC2 is today. Other cloud services providers don't have a presence all across geography, which will cause a delay when … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) EC2 is the standard for flexibility, reliability, user experience, and scalability. It could compare to something like other external servers that only provide a command line option to access. Amazon allows for a dashboard to control user access, so security is rarely a … Incentivized Helpful?	Amazon AWS Rafael Grandizoli Gerente de Operações in Product Management at MUV (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon S3 Due to the best integration between other AWS services my company already used, S3 was the logic choice. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon S3 Pricing and Cost Structure are best:Amazon S3:Offers multiple storage classes: Standard, Intelligent-Tiering, Standard-IA (Infrequent Access), One Zone-IA, Glacier, and Glacier Deep Archive while other were costly and figuring out the monthly costs were difficult. The … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon S3 Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is the only AWS offering for object storage. DynamoDB is fantastic for unstructured data but does not handle object storage. The relational database service (RDS) is excellent but only applies to use cases with structured table data, and does … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon S3 They're both great. I really don't know the differences, but both have the same basic set of features, in my opinion. But, S3 is widely know as a greater tool, safer, and much easier. Also, it's used by and compatible with a lot of applications around the world. That made us … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon S3 Amazon S3 is more cost-effective then what Microsoft Azure offers. Incentivized Helpful? Apurv Doshi Senior Solutions Architect at Infostretch (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Amazon S3 We have not used any other alternative for S3 as we find it more than what we actually need for. Incentivized Helpful? Justin Schroeder Partner & Senior Engineer in Engineering at Braid, LLC (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon S3 There are alternatives, Google Cloud Storage and Azure storage are the only real rivals, in my opinion, although most hosting vendors have their own flavor of an S3 like utility. However, most of those are actually just sub-vendors of S3. The most compelling case for using … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon S3 As most of our work loads and the under laying platforms are build on EMR, Spark and AWS Lambda, we did not find HDFS a suitable solution to have all of our data in. HDFS was very costly as we had to maintain data nodes only for the sole purpose of maintaining the extra storage … Incentivized Helpful? Corwin Cole CTO & COO in Information Technology at Apruvd (Financial Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon S3 I did not review or test with any other services. We started this business as a loyal and excited AWS customer and we remain the same today. Incentivized Helpful? Anudeep P Software Developer in Information Technology at Monsanto Company (Farming, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon S3 I haven't been personally involved in the decision to use S3, but in comparison to Dropbox or Google Drive, this offers a less robust UI to modify things, while being a cheaper storage mechanism over the rest. Incentivized Helpful? Ivan Miller Business Intelligence Engineer in Engineering at Experticity (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon S3 S3 is sort of the de-facto standard for cloud-based storage right now, so it's hard to have a great basis of comparison. Google's drive and cloud offerings are fairly similar in functionality, although I would say the AWS management console is a lot easier to interact with than … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon S3 *One could summarize very* generally:** If you need a filesystem: Incentivized Helpful? Yanan Wang Software Developer in Engineering at TrueCar, Inc. (Internet, 501-1000 employees) Chose Amazon S3 Amazon S3 is where you want to default to if you want to store a large amount of data. Compared to formatted data that you can store in Amazon RDS or DynamoDB, you can store your data in any format you want on S3. And the data retention policy can be really useful if you use S3 … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Amazon S3

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Feature	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) 9.5 21 Ratings	Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) - Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	10.020 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	9.620 Ratings	00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	9.820 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	9.120 Ratings	00 Ratings
Monitoring tools	9.120 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	9.320 Ratings	00 Ratings
Operating system support	9.620 Ratings	00 Ratings
Security controls	9.820 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automation	9.610 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Feature	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - Ratings	Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) 9.0 8 Ratings
Universal recovery	00 Ratings	9.07 Ratings
Instant recovery	00 Ratings	7.97 Ratings
Recovery verification	00 Ratings	8.05 Ratings
Business application protection	00 Ratings	8.65 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	00 Ratings	9.47 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	00 Ratings	9.33 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	00 Ratings	9.48 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	00 Ratings	8.73 Ratings
Snapshots	00 Ratings	9.55 Ratings
Flexible deployment	00 Ratings	9.28 Ratings
Management dashboard	00 Ratings	8.18 Ratings
Platform support	00 Ratings	8.78 Ratings
Retention options	00 Ratings	10.05 Ratings
Encryption	00 Ratings	9.86 Ratings

Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Feature	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - Ratings	Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) 8.8 8 Ratings
Continuous data protection	00 Ratings	9.48 Ratings
Replication	00 Ratings	9.27 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics	00 Ratings	8.48 Ratings
Malware protection	00 Ratings	8.02 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities	00 Ratings	9.58 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings

User Ratings
	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Amazon S3
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (67 ratings)	9.2 (74 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.7 (5 ratings)	7.6 (12 ratings)
Support Rating	8.5 (12 ratings)	9.8 (21 ratings)