Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) vs. VMware ESXi

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

344 Reviews and Ratings

VMware ESXi

810 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
VMware ESXi	Score7.6 out of 10	N/A	A bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

VMware ESXi

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)	VMware ESXi
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
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)	VMware ESXi
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Verified User Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) We selected EC2 because of the maturity of the platform, the ease of deployment and the completeness of Amazon's vision. EC2 by itself, stacks up rather evenly with the competition. Where AWS as a whole excels is in the integration. While you may start with EC2 instances, … Incentivized Helpful? Greg Schulz Sr. Consulting Analyst in Information Technology at StorageIO - www.storageio.com (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) AWS EC2 has been around awhile, it is very extensible, very flexible, very competitive, very evolving, very useful, very many options to do different things, however also meanwhile with hybrid cloud, we also are using Microsoft Azure VMs, as well as VMware vSphere ESXi among … Incentivized Helpful?	VMware by Broadcom Verified User Chose VMware ESXi Microsoft's HyperV is a solution we have tested over the years compared to VMware ESXi. HyperV still lacks the shine/polish ESXi has for how robust the offerings are for what can be done. Incentivized Helpful? Patrick Plaisance CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Information Technology at Pachyderm Consulting (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose VMware ESXi While all of the above hypervisors have their pros and cons, ESXi has the advantages of being free, well supported by the community, easy to setup, easy to use, and good hardware support. Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

VMware ESXi

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and VMware ESXi
Feature	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) 9.5 21 Ratings	VMware ESXi - 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 Server Virtualization features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and VMware ESXi
Feature	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - Ratings	VMware ESXi 8.2 128 Ratings
Virtual machine automated provisioning	00 Ratings	8.0116 Ratings
Management console	00 Ratings	9.0128 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	00 Ratings	8.0112 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	00 Ratings	8.0116 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	00 Ratings	8.0117 Ratings

User Ratings
	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	VMware ESXi
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (67 ratings)	9.0 (129 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (6 ratings)
Usability	9.7 (5 ratings)	9.0 (6 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	8.5 (12 ratings)	10.0 (55 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	- (0 ratings)	5.1 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)