Runs a gaming server on EC2 Spot: gets a two-minute warning to back up and restore on a new instance, paying less with no noticeable difference in the best case.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
39% Positive22% Mixed39% Negative
Users mostly praise Amazon EC2 for low cost, especially with spot instances or reserved capacity, and for steady uptime on long-running servers.
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Customer reviews (56)
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Runs an app on a single t4g.small EC2 instance that easily handles over 50k requests per second for about $4 a month.
Runs ECS on EC2 with a 36% discount and about 1% of one DevOps engineer's time for maintenance.
An EC2 server doing the same read-and-write job costs less per month than the Lambda function did in one day.
Moved 100+ SQL Server database servers from RDS to EC2 over a year; savings in the double digits, up to 50%+ in some environments.
Spins up EC2 Spot instances via Lambda for CI runners, with everything except the runner agent baked into the image.
Uses EC2 Spot instances as GitHub Actions runners, about 90% cheaper than GitHub-managed ones, and they work flawlessly.
They have run all their personal projects on AWS EC2 for six years and find it cheaper and more reliable than traditional VPS providers.
Moving a fleet to Graviton: RDS migration was easy but existing EC2s hit dependency issues; new EC2s all run Graviton, cheaper with great performance.
They run their backend on a free-tier EC2 t4g.small and only pay about $4 a month for the IPv4 address.
A data-enrichment app cost over $2,500 on Lambda versus under $60 on EC2 spot, running untouched on ECS-optimized images.
Moved a 100-million-invocation data processing job from Lambda to EC2 Spot instances at a fraction of the price.
Uses EC2 Spot for a GPU dev environment via launch template and ASG with EFS storage, saving a lot; works great.
Runs ECS containers on EC2 with reserved base load and spot for bursts, with spot t4g around $0.0025/hr.
Common questions about Amazon EC2
What do customers say about Amazon EC2?
Users mostly praise Amazon EC2 for low cost, especially with spot instances or reserved capacity, and for steady uptime on long-running servers. The main complaints are outages and degraded or restarted instances, and some were caught by unexpected bills from forgotten or free-tier-exceeding instances.
Is Amazon EC2 worth it?
Of the 31 reviews with a clear verdict, 39% are positive, 23% mixed and 39% negative. The praise mentioned most is great value. The most common complaint is outages.
What do people like about Amazon EC2?
The praise reviewers mention most: great value (7 reviews), reliable (6 reviews) and easy to use (2 reviews). For example: An EC2 server doing the same read-and-write job costs less per month than the Lambda function did in one day.
What are the most common complaints about Amazon EC2?
The complaints reviewers mention most: outages (8 reviews), hidden fees (3 reviews) and surprise bill (3 reviews). For example: During the October 2025 AWS incident their EC2 instance unexpectedly restarted in us-east-2 (Ohio), not just us-east-1.
What does the signal score of 61 mean?
It's how well reviewed Amazon EC2 is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of Amazon EC2?
Category: Cloud platform.
Where do these Amazon EC2 reviews come from?
56 are quotes from Reddit, each linked to the original. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.